PEDESTRIAN KILLED
AN OVERTAKING CAR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, January 2,
The New Year began badly in Marlborough when a fatal acCiabnt occurred v/ithin two hours of midnight on Saturday. An elderly pedestrian was killed by an overtaking motor-car on the highway at Spring Creek. It was the first serious road accident of the holidays in this district. The victim was James Reed, aged 56, single, labourer, formerly a resident of Nelson. The car was driven by Mr. A. Morgan, aged 23, Marshlands, who was returning from the New Year's Eve carnival in Blenheim, accompanied by his sister and another young man.
Mr. Reed, who was wearing a dark suit, was walking on the bitumen surfacing within a few chains of his whare. He was struck by the lefthand bumper of the car, and had his skull fractured. "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3
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