MOTOR ACCIDENT.
DRIVER DIES FROM INJURIES.
EXCESSIVE SPEED ALLEGED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) MAIM ATE, Tuesday.
Estimated to have been travelling at about fifty miles jxer hour, a five-seater car driven by L. Rodgers (Invercargill), turned a corner alongside Quinn’s Farm, Jive miles from Waiinate, this afternoon, too quickly to maintain its place on the road, and made a wide swoop on to the grass at the’ side. It then swung back into the centre of the road, from there swinging back again to the left and capsizing over a culvert, making a complete somersault, and landing on its wheels facing the direction in which it came.
Rodgers suffered injuries to his head from which he died ns a doctor arrived. P. O’Shaughnessy lost half an car and sustained a broken collarbone, the other occupants, M. Wakelin, J. Mark well and S. Board escaping with a severe shaking. It is understood that all the men were travelling for a Wellington firm selling coloured photo enlargements.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 September 1928, Page 5
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