HIT-AND-RUN ROAD TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND SUBURB

Grey River Argus, 30 August 1948, Page 4

HIT-AND-RUN ROAD TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND SUBURB

P.A. AUCKLAND, August 29. The mother of seven children was killed by a hit-and-run motorist near Drury on Saturday night. She was Mrs Dorothy Austin, aged 39, wife of Edgar Austin, of Ruakaka, Whangarei. Mrs Austin was on a holiday at the home of her sister, Mrs Margaret Young, of Drury. They were walking to Mrs Young’s house along the main road. The vehicle struck • Mrs Austin, whb was on the outside, from - behind. She was picked up bodily, and was carried along by it fox* 110 feet, before being deposited in a » ditch. Death was instantaneous. Her clothing was extensively torn. After throwing off Mrs Austin, the car continued with two of its wheels in the ditch, for 55 feet, before regaining the road. It did not stop. Mrs Young suffered severe shock, but she escaped serious physical injury. She had abrasions to the side which might have been caused by her sister's body, after it had been struck.