COLLISION WITH STEAM SHOVEL
WELL-KNOWN BARRISTER KILLED [Per United Press Association.] 'WELLINGTON', September 10. W T hen the car ho was driving along the Western Hutt road collided with a Public Works Department steam shovel shortly before 7 o’clock on Saturday night, John Campbell Peacock, a well-known barrister and solicitor of Wellington, received head injuries which resulted in his death in hospital an hour and a-half later. The other occupants of the car, Mrs Peacock, Miss Margot Peacock, and Mrs J. W. G. Brodic, were not injured. The steam shovel was being towed along the road by a motor truck t with a second motor truck following immediately behind to give more light. The car passed the first motor truck and collided with the steam shovel, the footboard around the vehicle about sft from the ground breaking through the windscreen and striking the deceased on the head* 1
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Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 12
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148COLLISION WITH STEAM SHOVEL Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 12
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