MOTOR FATALITY

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1931, Page 2

MOTOR FATALITY

CAR STRIKES BRIDGE. • 1 Ac- :*■? “MUST HAVE DOZED.” (Jsy Telegraph —Per Tree* Aisoeintion) PALMERSTON N., December 21. three o’clock on Saturday morn T itigy a motor accident occurred at Mil--7 aon’9; Line, resulting in the death' of Val Hbwitt, ag3d 19; years, ® bookbinder. The driver, Stewart Bramwell, and the other occupants, Dala Hewitt, sist-er of deceased, Madge Howell were returning from a dance at the .Stanway School. ■ Bt am well . states that he must have •dozed off, and awakening to find the car on the wrong side of the road, ten yards .from the Mangaone. Bridge. - He endeavoured to swing the car on to the centre of the road, but -the’ side of the car .. struck ..the,, bridge and -was badjjr damaged. : " ’■ Deceased we s apparently killed instant-? ly. Miss Howell was removed to the (Hospital, suffering from cuts about the face.: juries,' while' Miss ' Hewitt escaped uninjured; , & 6

NAVAL OFFICERS KILLED. iDtecember 20. • Two young men, believed to lie R. P. Young and 'T. Sorrerieon, nayal officers, were fatally crushed when a small car, in .wjvich they., :iw(ere making a holiday tour, -vi skidded and plunged down a on. the roadside near Moruya, on the. south’ coast. / MELBOURNE,’ December 20. The Moruya motor victims were •Petty Officers at the Flinders Naval Depot. They were travelling in Sorrenson’s car on a six weeks’ holiday in (Queensland. yVouhglsThorne ; * s •.' at Uhdercliffe, Sydney.. >.~-f . .