FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT
1 TELEGRAPH 801-KILLED. An accident wiiclt tedminated fatally too* place opposit9 the Wentworth Hotel, Wakefield Street, al 12.30 a.m. yesterday. 'William Gason, a telegraph messenger, was cycling homewards along Wakefield Street, when a motor-car, owned and driven by Mr. Joseph Bruton, of Nelson, came round the corner from Clyde Quay, and ran clean over the lad, 'who, -when picked up, -was found to be suffering from severe concussion of the brain, and was taken to the Hospital, where he died at 12.10 this morning. One witness states that the boy swerved two or three times immediately before the accident, as though ffazzled by the car lights. The youth was only 16 years of age.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 6
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117FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 6
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