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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 July 1924, Page 5

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WEDDING CEREMONY. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. CAR . CRASHES INTO GUESTS. ONE KILLED; FIVE INJURED. (BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.} WELLINGTON, July 30. A shocking accident occurred in the upper end of Dixon Street this afternoon. A crowd of wedding guests were waiting outside the entrance gates cf* St. John’s Church to greet the bride and bridegroom when one of the wedding cars standing farther up the street, which is very steep and dangerous at this point, got" out of control and ran downhill.’ Turnir/g inwards and running on to the footpath at the kerb, it struck a body of guests, all of whom were women, and crashed onwards to a concrete wall. Miss Lillian Scatchard, aged 25. of 3 Lewisville Terrace, Wellington, was killed, three were very seriously injured, and two others were injured more or less seriously. The injured Mrs. Witts (Petone), Mrs. Hall (Newtown), Mrs} Toomer and Mrs F Wheeler. The best man (Mr. Collins, of Petone), and several others were slightly injured. The injured were sent to hospital. _ The Uride and bridegroom (Mr. and Mrs. James Spence) had left bv the first car, and it was the .second car which got out of control. The bolting car contained the best mail, the two bridesmaids and the flower girls. It is presumed the driver released the brakes to follow the other cars and placed his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake. The car dashed to the footpath, where forty guests a moment before had been showering confetti. It is believed the mechanism of the car had gone wroii"