MOTORISTS KILLED
TAXI CRASHES TREE SEIZURE SUSPECTED YOUTH’S INJURIES FATAL HEAD-ON COLLISION (Per Pro is Association.) PALMERSTON N., .this day. Colliding with a tree when driving a car in Fitzherbert Avenue shortly before 7 o'clock this morning, a taxi owner-driver, Cecil H. Terry, was killed instantly, the impact badly vre eking the front of the car. The driver was thrown against the windscreen which was shattered. He suffered head and other injuries. Mr. Terry lately had been in indifferent health and was treated lor heart trouble. It is believed that he 1 ad a fainting fit or a seizure causing lire car to swerve off the road and collide with the tree. There is no sign of the brakes having been applied. Receiving head and other Injuries in a head-on collision with a car at Bunnythorpe early on Saturday evening, Kenneth Nilsson, aged 19, Woodville, died in hospital yesterday. It is understood that the deceased in overtaking a car, ran .into an approaching vehicle.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 6
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