FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 5

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

RETURNED SOLDIER KILLED. By Telegraph-Press Association. Masterton, March 31, Private W. F. Ciooding, of Featherston, died in the Greytown Hospital on Saturday morning, as the result of , injuries sustained in a motor accident on Tuesday last.' It appears'that he, with his brother Charles, was returning from tlio Medical Board, and was going to visit' his sister, Mrs. H. Weuliam, of South Featherston, when on crossing from one side of the road to the other, on account of new metal on tlio road, the car skidded and overturned. Deceased was pinned by the windscreen, tlio glass penetrating his left hip and holding him down. Charles Gooding, tho driver, had his right arm broken. Both men were conveyecl to Greytown Hospital, where they received immediate attention. The ease of Private W. E. Gooding was very serious, and although the best of attention was given he passed away on Saturday, He was the fourth son of the late Mrs. Jacob Good:ng, of Western Lake, and was-36 years of age. He had only returned from the front about three weeks ago, after an absence of over two years, having left with the Nineteenth Reinforcements. At the inquest held yesterday by the district coroner a verdict was returned that deceased met his death as the result of a motor-car accident.