MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
SOMERSAULT OVER RIVER BANK DRIVER KILLED AND PASSENGERS INJURED. PALMERSTON N., Nov. 4. A fatal accident ocurred at the termination of Fitzroy street last night, a two-seater car, driven by William Forbes, special representative of the National Insurance Company, and containing two employees of the Grand Hotel, where Mr Forbes was staying, Mary and Kitty Sullivan. The car ran over the road and somersaulted 'into the bed of the Manawatu river. Forbes was killed instantly, and the two women were badly hurt, being taken lo hospital. Forbes was a stranger to the locality,, and evidently did not know that the road terminated suddenly on the top of the 20-ft river bank. The ear shot over the bank, and Forbes was pinned underneath. Death must have been instantaneous.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 6 November 1916, Page 5
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