MOTOR FATALITY
CAR GOES OVER BANK. By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
♦ TE TvUITI, June 3. On Saturday night a distressing motoring; fatality occurred on the main road Lo New Plymouth two miles south of To Tvuiti. Police-Inspector James Alexander Mathew, aged sixty-seven, and • his son, Desmond George, aged twentythroe. left Auckland on Saturday morning for Ma'hoenui, thirty miles from Te Kuiti. When negotiating a hairpin bend the lights suddenly fs ilod and the car wont over a bank thirty feet, struck a stump and turned a somersault Doth occupants wore pinned underneath. Desmond was killed by suffocation, hoi 112 pinned on the chest and nock. His father received only minor injuries, hut suffered considerable shock. 'Plie father was pinned by the steering wheel for an hour and a half before lie could attract a passing motorist, though many passed. The young man died almost instantaneously, and the Father had a terrible ordeal waiting for assistance. At the inquest held on Sundae night a verdict of accidental death was returned, the Coroner adding a rider that this spot should be safeguarded for motorists.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 1
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