WOMAN KILLED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT
GREAT FALL SMASHES CAR TO PIECES. By Telegraph—Preus Association. Christchurch, May 9. A fatal motor accident occurred yesterday near Church Bay, on the opposite side of the harbour to Lyttelton. Robert Hunter, a farmer at Amberley, had taken a party over the hills on Saturday to spend the week-end with his brother. Y esterday morning the party, with the addition of John Hunter and Oliver Hunter (brothers of Robert Hunter). farmers on the Peninsula, made a trip to Diamond Harbour, and on the return journey, while Hunter’s car was descending. Church Bay hill, the front wheels skidded. Swerving towards the edge of the road, the car crashed into a wire fence.
For a brief period the car hung in the wires, enabling John and Oliver Hunter and their daughters to jump clear, and escape with minor injuries. Robert Hunter, who was driving, and Mis. Oakley, a married sister, were unable to’get clear. The car plunged over the edge of the road down a declivity almost to the sea, a distance of several hundred feet, and was smashed to piecis. Mrs. Oakley was found dead, and Hunter badly injured, throe ribs being broken. --
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 192, 10 May 1921, Page 4
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197WOMAN KILLED IN MOTOR ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 192, 10 May 1921, Page 4
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