THREE LIVES LOST.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5

THREE LIVES LOST.

mother and two children. CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK INTO WATER. BLENHEIM, This Day. A fatal accident on the BleuheimNelsou road occurred about eleven o’clock last night, near Ruaweka, about four miles on the Nelson side of Havelock, at a spot where several accidents have happened in recent years. A car driven by James Hickey, accompanied by his wife, Jessie Hickey, his daughter, Lilly, aged ten years, his son Maurice, aged three, a lad named Martyn Stewart, aged 13, and a man named Bernard West, all of Nelson, who had been visiting Blenheim for the weekend, was proceeding to Nelson. Just after passing a car driven by Mrs 11. Waite, Hickey's car plunged down a 30ft bank into 15ft of water. Mrs While noticed nothing wrong, but Charles Maule "Rniballey, who was motoring immediately behind Hickey, saw the accident and rendered assistance. All but Mrs Hickey and her son and daughter maanged to get. free of the car. The lad Stewart was sent to thes hospital with injured shoulders and severe shock, while three are dead. The bodies of Mrs Hickey and Lilly Hickev wer • recovered fiom the submerged car at eight o’clock this morning, Maurice iiicicey’s body being found three hours later. The indications are that all were dead before the ear struck the water. The little boy had a fracture of the base of the skull, the girl a broken neck, and the mother serious head injuries..