Driver Burnt To Death In Damaged Car

Chronicle (Levin), 27 March 1948, Page 4

Driver Burnt To Death In Damaged Car

. - ♦ : ■ Dl'XHDIX, JMareh . A body (lisco.vered lust iiiglit in.hu burnt-Out 7'emaiu.s of a motor ear. (iii the I ,q.\\:er ^Po o,helio:-Al|/)acl about, .,1,^ miles Tfonf ^ulfetThi ' was believcd thif morning to be that of Robei't .Tanie White, aged 20 years, a.elerk eiuployed by the City Transport Department.' 1 The body which was eharrcd beyond reeognitioxi was in the baek se-at oi' th car and was diseovered by a pas,sinu motorist, Mr. A. A. Cameron, of Dirch 'field Avenue, Dunedin^ at about N.;!0. The veliicle was blazing furiousl with the lioilnct faejng into the bank [t wq_s hnpossible to approach the ea cJo.sely and Mr. Cameron notilied th constable at Portobello. When the ro mains were diseovered in the liack sea the Ceptral I'olice Htation wag notilie.c and a partv of police left for the seenc It was thouglit by police this morning that. the ear had skidded into the ba'iiu and that, af ter White had" attempted to get it bacic on to the road witliotu sueeessj .he had climbed into the * rau seat and lit a cigarette. He was in tin Kabit of earrying extra petrol in tli" rear of. the ear, it was statcd, and a petrol tin and broken earthenware jar were diseovered today. A. jack wafound under the front wheel. White was known to have driven a friend to the distriet last evening and wa,s reported to have feft on the retnrn jpurney to the city about (5 p.m.