CAR OVER BANK
FATALITY NEAR MATAROA WELL-KNOWN FARMER KILLED A motor fatality occurred about 6.45 o’clock on Saturday night on Tiriraukawa Road about three and a half miles past Mataroa. A two-seacer light car was being driven by Leo McSweeney, who was accompanied by John R. Mills, son of Robert Mills, manager of F. Hintz’s farm at Tiriraukawa. From what can be ascertained McSweeney was trying to negiotate a corner on the left of the road when the car ran off to the right and fell over the bank, coming to rest upside down after falling about seven feet. The occupants were pinned uderneath, and after much difficulty McSweeney extricted himself and unsuccessfully tried to lift the car from Mills, who, by this time, was apparently dead as he was pinned down with his face on the papa and clay. McSweeney, who was a stranger to the locality went to the Tiriraukawa Hall, where a dance was in progress and reported the matter and a number of men visited the scene and recovered the body of Mills from underneath the car. The police were notified and they brought the body to Taihape, where an inquest will be opened to-day. The deceased was a married man, aged 27, and was well and favourably known in the Tiriraukawa district.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 6
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217CAR OVER BANK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 6
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