MOTOR FATALITY.

Western Star, 5 December 1933, Page 3

MOTOR FATALITY.

WOMAN KILLED. GAR CRASHES INTO HARBOUR. OTHER OCCUPANTS INJURED. , CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3. A sedan car, driven by David Ludecke, of Dampier street, Woolston, a factory overseer, ran over a steep bluff at Corsair Bay, Lyttelton, into the harbour 200 feet below. The driver and three 1 passengers of the car were all thrown out. The driver escaped serious injury, but the other three were injured, one fatally. The victims of the accident were:

Mrs Jessie Harris, aged 30, 126 McKenzie Avenue, Woolston, who died from injuries a few minutes after being picked up. - . George • Harris, aged 8, and Kevin -Harris, aged 6, both seriously injured, taken' to hospital. • Ludecke was trying to park his car on the roadside overlooking the bluff, but backed over the edge and the car somersaulted over the cliff. A man, who was fishing on the rocks below at the time, had a narrow escape from injury, being struck on the shoulder by a piece of the broken, car. The boys who were seriously injured are reported to have improved. An eye-witness of the accident said that when Ludecke backed the car off the road to park it the car appeared to gather speed. It seemed as if the driver, had- inadvertently put his foot on the accelerator instead of. the brake.. It crashed through the fence, immediately turned over backwards, and so continued hurtling end over end until it crashed on the rocks at sea level.