ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
MOTOR LORRY ACCIDENT. WOMAN LOSES HER LIFE. I'ER PREBB ASSOCIATION. Hastings, February 11. A motor lorry accident occurred at Poukawa this afternoon, whereby Mrs ./. A. Newrick, of Otane, lost her life, and her daughters', aged three years, had a foot badly crushed. They were returning to Otane from Hastings with a load of ben/.ine. When passing Poukawa the accelerator struck, and Mr Newrick, stooping down to release it, allowed the lorry to run off the road. There was a ..light jolt, sufficient to throw Mrs iS r ewrick and child off the lorry, and the fall broke the unfortunate woman's nock. A case of benzine fell on the child's foot.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 57, 12 February 1916, Page 2
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112ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 57, 12 February 1916, Page 2
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