ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
CAR'S DOUBLE SOMERSAULT. I Per Press .Association. Invercargill, March 4. A motor accident occurred at Bluff last evening, involving a double somersault down a forty-foot bank on to a .shingle beach. A motor-ear containing Mr and Mrs Lowe, of Wellington, and Messrs Woods and Williams, of Invercargill. were motoring round Point road, Bluff, when, in trying to back down on the incline, the car unexpectedly shot over the edge of the roadway and landed with a crash on the shingle below. The car was naturally badly damaged, hut the occupants, with the exception of the lady passenger, escaped with bruises. Mrs Lowe, sustained a fractured, collarbone and severe bruises, and is also suffering from shock. This is the third motor accident of the kind which has taken place at this spot, FOUND DROWNED IN RESERVOIR. Wellington, March 6. The, body of Isabella Hitchcock, who had been missing since Wednesday, was found in the upper basin of the city reservoir yesterday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 77, 7 March 1916, Page 3
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162ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 77, 7 March 1916, Page 3
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