MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4504, 13 September 1930, Page 3

MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

AT FOOT OF AIOUNT STEWART. ■ ALAN AND BABY DEAD. A well known Palmerston North resident, and an infant were killed on Thursday afternoon when a car overturned near Awahuri, and was completely wrecked. The other passengers in the car, two women and a man, had a miraculous escape from death. The dead are:— Henry Herbert Griggs, an unaged 5(5 years, of 1.5 Princess Street. The 12-months-old son of Air. and Mrs. Roy A. Brace, secretary of the Premier Drapery Company, 2OS Park Road.

Injured:— Airs. R. Brace, Air. Griggs’s daughter, and mother of the baby: severe bruises and abrasions.

The other occupants of the ear were: Airs. Dorothy Patty, of Levin, and Air. W. H. Williams, aged 5(1 years, a. retired public servant, for many years supervisor at the Palmerston North Post Office. The accident occurred at the foot of Mount Stewart at about 5 pan. The party was returning from Waugauui, and Mr. Griggs was driving. Approaching a slight incline, two cars travelling it. opposite directions were passed. Apparently Griggs went too far over to his left to let these cars pass. Trying to recover, ho jammed on both his fnotbvake and his handbrake. This sudden application, combined with the angle of the ear on the road, tin* two back wheels apparently being off the bitumen, together with the speed at which it was travelling, was disastrous.