MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED
' HITS SERVICE CAR PILLION RIDER’S ESCAPE From Our Own Correspondent OPOTIKI. Today, A fatal accident occurred at ‘Tanfatua, on the Opotiki Road last evening. when a service car, returning to Opotiki from the railhead at Taneatua, mst a motor-cycle near Mrs. Birch’s tea kiosk on the Waiotahi Beach. The motor-cycle which was ridden Uy a young man, Albert George Butterworth. aged eighteen, with a young woman as a pillion passenger struck the mudguard of the car. Butterworth was thrown into a bank which he struck with his head, receiving double concussion, while the Pillion passenger escaped with shock. Neither the motor-cycle nor car was damaged. Butterworth was immediately conveyed to the Public Hospital seriously injured, and he died at 3.30 o'clock this morning. He was employed in Dalgety and Company’s store at Opotiki.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 1
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