“Lift” in Motor-car Costs Man His Life
DROWNED IN CREEK DAZED SEARCH BY DRIVER Press Association CARTERTON, Today. A farmer of Dalefield, John Thomas Hooper, aged 48, lost his life last night as the result of a motor-car accident. He had cycled to Carterton, where he was offered a ride home by Mr. James R. Mackay in a car, which he accepted. When near the concrete bridge on the Dalefield road the lights of an approaching car dazzled Mackay, and he pulled to the side of the road, but went too far and plunged down the embankment about 15 feet into the creek. Mackay was thrown out into the stream and received a battering blow on the head. He remembers nothing of how he got out and was wandering round dazed when Hooper’s son, who had also been to Carterton, came along and found him. Questioning brought to Mackay’s mind that he had been driving the car with Hooper as passenger, and he asked where he was. Both searched and found Hooper pinned under the car and drowned They telephoned to the police and to the doctor and removed the body to Hooper’s home, not far distant. An inquest will be held today. The other car, it is alleged, did not stop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 1
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