MOTOR FATALITY.
CAR SOMERSAULTS INTO RIVER.
DRIVER KILLED INSTANTLY.
TWO WOMEN BADLY HURT.
Per Press Association. Palmerston North, November 4
A fatal motor accident occurred at the termination of Fiztroy Street last night.
A two-seater car, driven by William Forbes, special representative of the National Mutual Insurance Co., and containing two employees of the Grand Hotel (where Forbes was staying) named Miss Mary Sullivan and Miss Kitty Sullivan, over-ran the road and somersaulted into the bed of the Manawatu River.
Forbes was killed instantly, and the two women were badly hurt and were taken to the hospital.
Forbes, who was a stranger to the locality, evidently did not know that the road terminated suddenly twenty feet from the river bank, and the car shot over the bank and pinned the driver underneath. Death, must have been instantane-
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 4 November 1916, Page 4
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137MOTOR FATALITY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 4 November 1916, Page 4
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