FATAL MOTOR SMASH.
Waimate, September 19. Estimated to have been travelling at about 50 miles an hour, a five-seater car, driven by L. Rodgers, of Invercargill, turned a corner alongside Quinn’s farm, five miles from Waimate, this afternoon too quickly to maintain its place on the road-and made a wide sweep on to the grass at the side, then swung back into the centre' of the road. From there, it swung back again to the left, eapsising over a culvert, making a complete somersault and landing on its wheels, facing the direction from which it had come. Rodgers suffered injuries to the head from which he died as a doctor arrived. P; O’Shaungnessey lost half an ear and sustained a broken collarbone. The other occupants, M. Wakelin, J. Markwell, and iS. Beard, escaped with a severe shaking. It is understood all the men were travelling for a Wellington firm, selling coloured photo enlargements.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3847, 20 September 1928, Page 2
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153FATAL MOTOR SMASH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3847, 20 September 1928, Page 2
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