ELDERLY COUPLE KILLED
BY A MOTOR HOG. WHO DID NOT STOP. Cress Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrigl (Received Saturday, 110.35 a.m.) BYDNKY, This Day. An elderly couple, named John Gurr, aged seventy-one, and liis wife, Alary, aged sixty, were knocked down by a motor car 011 the Parramatta road at Five Dock (S miles west of Sydney), late last night, and received shocking injuries from which both died. The driver of the car did not stop, though, it is stated, he evidently saw the Burrs, for the marks on the road subsequently showed how the brakes had been applied just before running them down. After skidding for 2* yards, the ear resumed its journey. A motor eve list following gave chase, but lost- sight of the car when passing Bimvood. Soon after the accident two young men told the police that shortly before the time of the accident they were passed bv a blue motor car travelling at between forty and .fifty miles per hour. Its extraordinary speed prompted them to make a note of its number. —P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 March 1925, Page 5
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