TAXI TRAGEDY
DRIVER KILLED. (My Tde>jruph — I'er /‘rests Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 26. The driver of a taxi, Sinclair Le Warne, aged 25, was killed early this morning when a car he was driving capsized when turning a corner between Milton Street and Johnson Street. Three passengers in the c-r. Thomas William Puddle, Peggy Puddle, and Patrick Karaitiana, escaped with minor cuts and bruises. No one witnessed the accident, and the passengers were unaware of what had happened. It seems probable that Le Warne, in making the turning, struck the kerb with the inside wheels, and
that the jolt threw the car over. Le Warne received head injuries. He was alive when Idled from the wreckage, hut died almost immediately. Le Warne had been driving a taxi foi some years. He was by trade a nmtoi mechanic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 3
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136TAXI TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 3
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