INSTANT DEATH

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 7

INSTANT DEATH

SHOCKING CAR SMASH‘

ANOTNER CRITICALLY INJURED. SEVERE IMPACT \\'lTll LORRY. (By Telegraph—Pres: Association.) ULENHEIM. Tuesday. Tregedy overtook a party of 111 Wall-nu Valley farmers last evenlng when returning home from attending a funeral In Blenheim. Within e couple of miles of Weir-u Valley township on a straight, wide ctr-etch of highway, e oer drlven by Mr George Gordon Devldson collided with a laden timber lorry, with the result 'thet. Mr Leon-rd Leslie Hart, married, wlth one child, we: killed lnntantlneouely, while Mr Devldeon hlmlelt is not expected to live. lsuth received fearful head injuries when the body of the car. a big sedan. was practically ripped off the chassis. Evidently the bodywork struck the turn on the heads with shocking consequences. Four other occupants had a mar—vellous escape in the circumstances. sum-ring only severe shock The accident occurred Just after dark. it can only be assumed that the driver of the ill—fated cur miscalcu~ latml the margin to pass the lorry \\ith the result that the windscreen hit the timber alongside the call) 01' the lorry driver, who is named .\lervyn Prentice. _—