FATAL COLLISION
MOTORIST KILLED. DUNEDIN, Friday. A fatal collision occurred on Kilmog Hill sliortly after 2 p.m. to-day when a fivo-seater motor car driven by George Gloag, labourer, of Omarama, collided with a motor lorry proceeding in the opposite direction and was hurled against the bank on the inside of the road, the driver of the car being killed instantaneously. Gloag, who was a single man, 23 years of age, was travelling to Dunedin with two companions when tlio accident occurred. He apparently applied his brakes when he isaw the lorry appr celling but the slippery surface. of the road caused the car to skid into the oncoming vehicle, with the result that all three occupants were thrown out of the car. The driver received the full force of the impact. The two passengers escaped uninjured. —(P-A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 August 1936, Page 8
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