PEDESTRIAN’S FATE
STRUCK BY VAN YOUNG FARMER KILLED MORRINSVILLE FATALITY (Special to Times) MORRINSVILLE, Friday Struck by a baker’s van on Tahuna Road, about two and a-half miles from Morrinsville, at about 5.30 p.m. yesterday, a young farmer suffered injuries from which he died instantly. He was: Mr Vernon C. Young, aged 21, son of Mr and Mrs H. W. Young, of Taukoro Road, Morrinsville. Mr Young was walking home along the road after visiting his brother when the accident occurred. The van which knocked him down was passing another vehicle bound in the opposite direction. Mr Young had only just been passed for military service and was about to go into camp. An inquest was opened at 11 a.m. to-day but was adjourned after evidence of identification had been given by a brother.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21157, 5 July 1940, Page 10
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