FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 6

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

OAR RUNS INTO PEDESTRIANS. • ARREST FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Melbourne, February 3, A peculiar motor car fatality occurred at Aspendale yesterday. Mrs Donald, wife of Dr. Donald, of Warrnacknabeal, ‘Nurse Ryan, Miss Culshaw, and Roy Parkinson were walking in company along the road when .a motor car dashed into them from behind. Parkinson was knocked down and picked up unconscious, and Mrs Donald was dragged thirty yards susI taining internal injuries from which she expired shortly afterwards. The others were uninjured. The oar oontinuedjahd struck a tree, and the occupants, two men and two women were thrown on to the roadvyay. Another car arrived and conveyed those four to a private hospital at Melbourne. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Melbourne, February 4. Albert Lewis, the driver of the car, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. He says that when he saw the light which Parkinson was carrying, he tried to avoid it by pulling to th,e left hand, but when it swerved the car dashed into the pedestrians. He thought the light was attached to a car, and made allowance for a vehicle to pass. When the occupants of the opr recovered from the first shock they endeavoured to help the injured. yj»