Two Men Killed

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 197, 6 September 1937, Page 8

Two Men Killed

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rCAR'S FATAL DIVE ; Companion Dangerously Injured 20-FOOT PLUNGE

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/ NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. \ ffwo young men were killed ancl liaother dangerously injured when a car terashed through tihe approaeh to a fbridge near Inglewood and dived on |fa nose over a 20-foot bank into a ismall creek. It Was not until probably jeight to. ten lours afterward that the ioccupants were discovered. .Those in the ear were: — j Killed biJt/ITH IVAHT STT AW, single, aged 19, •• of New Plymouth. (MAITLAND GEORGE MORRISON, Lj iftngle, aged 23, of New Plymouth. |f| • Injured H&LUBIOE ROGERS, single, grocer's |~ . . wsistant, of .Urenui, J JDhe accident probably oceurred in Kfi early hoars of this morning, but it plifcs not .till 2 p.m. to-day that the disjeovery was made by Mr. Andrew jDodunsM, who was passing along the #eh4 ftnd notieed that part of the -con ferete approaeh to the bridge (had been proken down* . He inyestigated and found the Jwreeked ear standing on its nose in the ereelc pfter having plunged over the 20-foot bank, Shaw and Morrison Wertf obviously dead, with head injuries ind broieu limbs, but Eogers, who was in the front seat and was probably t/he driver, was alive, ; Ma Dodunski summoned Constable jLongbottom . and Dr. McRae, from Inglewood, JThey coneluded that the twof men had been dead eight to ten hoursw Rpgerg was hurried to the New Plylcouth hospital. He xegained consciousjness for a few minutes and was able to give ihis name, but again lapsed Into, nneonsciousness before he could Igive any account of the accident. He. has serious head injuries and jprobably broken bones, .