TARANAKI FATALITY
| Motor-cyclist Crashes Into Bridge Near Opunake. ; Two serious motor accidents, one fatal, marred the King’s Birthday I holiday in, Taranaki yesterday. In both cases lone motor-cyclists were involved. | Jack Devereux, aged about 30 years, |an employee of Messrs Boon Bros., who had been working recently’ at ! Stratford, was fatally injured when his motor-cycle crashed into the con-, crete parapet of a bridge near the intersection of Waiteika and El'tham ! roads near Opunake. He received a . frats’ured skull and other terrible inI juries and died last night in the, HaI went hospital. J A. B. Membery, aged 22 years, i Rahotu. received severe concussion ! and possibly a. fracture of the skull ) when his motor cycle collided with a | post, on the Main South Road beI tween Rahotu and Warea. He was i rushed by ambulance to New Plyi mouth hospital, where hfe was report{ed to be progressing satisfactorily ' last night.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 4
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151TARANAKI FATALITY Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 4
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