CAR IN RIVER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 391, 24 March 1937, Page 5

CAR IN RIVER

TRAGEDY AT RANGIOTU ONE BODY RECOVERED. Number of Car Occupants Unknown. (Press Association —Copyright.) Palmerston N., This Day. A shocking tragedy occurred at Rangiotu, a township about twelve miles from the city, on the Palmerston North-Foxton highway, very late last night. A five-seater motor-car travelling southwards, left the highway at a bend, struck a fence near the road bridge and somersaulted a considerable distance, to the side of the river, and finally rolled down the bank into the Oroua River, where it landed 4 wheels upward.

Residents near by, hearing a loud crash, investigated and summoned a police ambulance, but it was obvious that the occupants must have been killed or drowned in the/ time that elapsed. The police are unable to ascertain the number of occupants of the vehicle. This morning one body was recovered when the car was dragged to the side of the river. The indications are that the car must have left the highway when travelling at a high speed. ' A member of the hospital ambulance crew at an early hour this morning entered the water, in bathing costume, but could throw little light on the tragedy.