MOTOR ACCIDENT
BOY FATALLY INJURED. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. A 13-year-old boy, William Jolm Freeman, was fatally injured when a motor car used for the delivery of milk •crashed into a telegraph pole on WestEnd Road, Auckland, at 6.30 o'clock this morning. The driver of the car, Barry Arthur Neill, who lived with the boy at 2 Shelly Beach Road, Ponsonby, escaped injury. Freeman suffered a fractured skull, broken thigh and abrasions. According to the driver, one of the back "wheels of the motor car collapsed, causing the. rear of the car to crash into the pole. The hood was wrapped round the pole and wreckage was strewn over the road. After the crash the car went on 20 feet, crossed a footpath, and ran into a bank. Freeman was the son of a milk vendor.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 January 1936, Page 5
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