FATAL COLLISION
WOMAN KILLED. CAMBRIDGE, Saturday. A fatal collision occurred between two motor cars at an intersection near Leamington at 11 o’clock tliis morning, a well known Maungatautari resident, Mrs P. W. Suckling, being so severely injured that she died within five minutes.
Mrs Suckling and her daughter Audrey were driving homewards, from Cambridge, and the other car was proceeding towards Cambridge from Roto-o-rangi. They met at the intersection with considerable force. Mrs Suckling’s sedan car overturned, the hood being completely crushed in. Miss Suckling suffered severely from shock and skin abrasions.
The other car, an open tourer, owned by Mr A. R. Cox, of Roto-o-rangi, was driven by Margaret Cox, with her sister Dorothy as a passenger. Both are suffering from shock, but otherwise are uninjured. Miss Nancy Martyn, a passenger in the Suckling car, is also uninjured. Mr and Mrs Suckling and their family of one son and one daughter came to Cambridge from Morere, Hawke’s Bay, about three years ago, taking up farming at Maungatautari.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 4
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168FATAL COLLISION Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 4
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