MOTOR CRASH
A COUPLE KILLED. (By Telegraph—Pet Press Association.! WELLINGTON, September 2. Two people arc dead through an accident which occurred at Heretaunga on the main Hutt Road at 6.45 p.m. to-day. They were travelling on a motor-cycle, apparently towards Wellington, find the accident happened a short distance on the city side of Mason Bros.’ store Heretaunga. Residents nearby beard a terrific crash, and rushed out on to tin; road.. The figures of a man and a young woman were lying at the roadside. Both were shockingly injured. The damaged machine was a yard or two a way. About 20 yards further on, a new sedan motor-ear had 'crashed into a store, and had come to test with considerable damage to iKelf and the building.
The driver of the car was uninjured. The woman, wlio was dead almost as soon as she was found,' was still unidentified late tohiight. •
The man, who died from his injuries in the ambulance while being taken to Wellington, waS' Joseph 1 Allred Banks, single', aged 20, 'Warder at Wi Tako Prison, Heretaunga. \ Tlie driver of the motor-ear which crashed into the shop, Mr John Matthias Gamble, iv motor saleinan, said after the accident thath another car was travelling ahead o*f, hint in tlie same, directioij away from the city. He attributed the. accident to the car ahead. Gamble’s car, which was a new one, ran into the posts of the shop and broke more or less into the building itself. It was imbedded in the structure with the front mudguards badly torn and the windshield shattered.
It was impossible this evening to find out definitely what the motorcycle bad collided with, and how the accident occurred.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 6
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