TRAGIC SMASH
motorlst killed and girl trapped \vith dead body AUSTRALlAN FATALITY Sydmey, Sunday The driver was killed instantly, and his giri compahion trapped in t"he wfeckage for bVer half-an-hour, when a car crasBfed 20 feet over a cliff on a hair-pin bend of the mountains road near Mt. "^Vilson yesterday. The victim was Frank Coward (49) of Rockley, Blue Mountains. I The car was tfavelling from Mt. Wilson tb Mt.- Victoria, and had not goiie far- aloiig the mountains road when it " skidde'd bn a Kairpin hend, and crashed over the cliff, somersaulting on its hood. 'The girl, who was not injur ed, but shffered from shoek,- was not released 'for* over half an hour, when the chr was noticed by passing hcrrsemen. 1 • The Blue Mountains Ambulance was ealled. aiid Cowafd's hodv was fakefi-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 2
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136TRAGIC SMASH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 2
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