MOTOR FATALITY.
(Per United Press Association.) OHMHTCHUEGH, January 30. A motor accident in which Brie Lyford, aged, 28, was killed! and Walter Gibson suffered sever© head wounds occurred at Kaikoura this evening. The car was rounding a bend when the rear right tyre burst and the car swerved over the Elide of the road into a deep depression. The right fore wheel collapsed and the car overturned but righted itself again. The occupants were thrown through the windscreen. They both got up and after walking about fifteen yards Lyford collapsed and Gibson fell unconscious. On arrival of a doctor Lyford was dead. Deceased, who was manager of the Hapuka Dairy Factory, had accepted a lift from Gibson. He leaves a widow and two children.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16038, 31 January 1920, Page 3
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124MOTOR FATALITY. Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16038, 31 January 1920, Page 3
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