CAR SMASH

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 6

CAR SMASH

TWO PERSONS KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, October 28. A, hum and his wife were killed and three other persons injured, when a motor car in, which they were proceeding up Whiteman’s Valley road went over a. bank and crashed down a steep hillside into a gully below, about four o’clock yesterday afternoon. * The victims were :-

Killed .—Edward James Exton (a plumber) and Iris wife, Margaret Craig Exton.

Injured.—Leonard Frank Barton (a traveller), Alexa Margaret Barton (married) and Alexa Barton, aged five years. ; .

Mrs Exton was -Mr and Airs liarton’s daughter. The accident occurred at a sharp bend at the summit off Whiteman’s Valley RoaJ about five miles from Silverstream. Barton was at the wheel, the car going over a hank when about to pass another car, a car coming round a bend from the opposite direction.

Mr and Mrs Barton and the child were thrown out about half way down the hill, the two'deceased being thrown clear about fifty feet further on. Exton was killed outright from head injuries and shock: while his wife, died twenty minutes after the accident from a ifracture of the spine • and head injuries. . . •

Lacerated wounds were suffered by Barton, while Mrs Barton escaped with a fractured ankle. The little girl, Alexa Barton, received medical attention and later' was- sent to the hospital. Edward James Exton was aged 63 and his wife-was also the same age.