CAR MISHAPS

Evening Star, Issue 23694, 30 September 1940, Page 4

CAR MISHAPS

TWO PERSONS KILLED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 29. When a motor car travelling south overturned on the Great South road near Bombay yesterday afternoon, a girl was killed instantlv and three other passengers were injured. The injured were later admitted to the Auckland Hospital. The victims were: —Killed.— Miss Valmai June Sharplin, a waitress, aged 19, of Newton. —lnjured. Private Herbert Kitchener M'Cauley, married, aged 21, of Hopuhopu Military Camp, formerly of Lumsden, Southland, severe concussion and head injuries. . Private John Niven Murch, single, aged 24, also of the Hopuhopu Camp, formerly of Invercargill, severe shock. Miss Edith Beasley, waitress, aged about 19, of Newton, shock and head injuries. When the car overturned Miss Shsrplin, who was driving, was caught beneath the car when the door on her side opened. She was killed instantly. The other passengers were severely shaken as the car turned over, and Private M'Cauley was knocked unconscious. He was still unconscious when he was admitted to hospital, and his condition is still fairly serious. The condition of Miss Beasley and Private Murch is not serious. HASTINGS, September 29. An elderly woman passenger was killed and the driver was injured when a car left the road near the Mohaka bridge on the Napier-Tanpo highway on Saturday and plunged 30 feet down a bank. The victims were Winifred Dorotbv Sargeant. of Napier, aged 60, who was killed, and William Alooro Barton, of Dcvenport, aged 50, who suffered injuries.