MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
CYCLES IN COLLISION. YOUNG MAN KILLED. ANOTHER SERIOUSLV INJURED. ELTHAM, Monday. At 10.30 last night Felix Jacob Lehrke, aged 20, grocer, of Elthim, was killed when his motor-cycle collided with a motor-cycle ridden by George Alexander Anderson, farm labourer, of Finerty Road, Ngaere, at a bend of the Mountain Road, in a headou collision. Both riders were found beneath their machines by a passer-by. Lehrke died almost immediately and Anderson is unconscious, with a broken thigh, leg injuries, and a fractured hand.
The machines were badly damaged. The night was clear and apparently both headlights were burning. Lehrke’s parents left last week on a visit to Tahiti.
DEATH IN HOSPITAL. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. Norman Coburn, musician, of Opunake, who received a fractured skull in a collision between his car and a stationary car on Saturday night, died in the hospital to-day.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18030, 27 May 1930, Page 6
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