CAB FATALITY AT NAPIER.
TWO WOMEN KIkDED
Napier, August 22
A cab accident occurred in Milton road to-day resulting in the death of two women and the serious injury to another. While the cab was coming down the hill, one of the horses stumbled and dragged the driver off the cab along the road until he was forced to let go the reins. The horses then bolted and at the bottom of the road they ran over two women standing on the foothpath. The occupants of the cab, Mrs and Miss Ruth Anderson, visitors from Wellington, were thrown out.
One of those, on the foothpath, Mrs Baker, wife of a local butcher, and Miss Ruth Anderson, died in the hospital an hour or two later. The other worn m on the footpath, Mrs Porson, ha I her leg broken. The driver escaped with a lacerated forearm.
The uuderpart of the cab was smashed to atoms and one of the horses was so badly injured that it had to be destroyed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1034, 24 August 1911, Page 3
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170CAB FATALITY AT NAPIER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1034, 24 August 1911, Page 3
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