Invited Passenger Killed in Car Crash

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 1

Invited Passenger Killed in Car Crash

COLLISION WITH POLE FATALITY AT OHINEWAI (From Our Oxen Correspondent) HUNTLY, To-day. Accepting a lift along the road in a car driven by Mr. John O’Connor McCarthy, a well-known resident of Ohinewai, Frank Foster, aged 36, a married man with five young children, lost his life through the motor capsizing and striking a telegraph-pole. Mr. Foster, who was employed by the Public Works Department in charge of the road-roller engaged in constructoin works on the Great South Road, joined the car at Rangiriri late yesterday afternoon. The passengers were: Messrs. McCarthy (driver) and Wai Tai, a native labourer. All went well till the Ohinewai School was reached, and in endeavouring to pass another car, bound in the same direction, the new car driven by Mr. McCarthy somersaulted and crashed into a telegraph-pole. It was at once seen that Mr. Foster who was riding in the back dickeyseat, was badly injured. On the arrival of Dr. Duncan McDiarmid he was dead, death apparently being instantaneous. Mr. Foster was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Foster, of Rangiriri, well known and respected pioneer residents in the Lower Waikato. An inquest was opened at Ohine wai to-day.