FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
WIFE KILLED AND HUSBAND INJURED. (Per Press Association.) Timaru, September g. A distressing fatal motor car ac cident occurred on Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs John Meikk were returnig home from town in a car, the wife, an expert driver, as usual being in charge. When do scending a steep narrow road on a side cutting near the house, the car went over the bank and capsized over a wire fence. Meikle was pitched out and had his ri^ht # ihiffh broken. Mrs Meikle was pinned under the car, and was suffocated by the weight on her chest. Some time elapsed be fore the husband crawled to within the hearing of a maid servant at the house. Deceased was about 38 years of age, and leaves one child, a little girl of four. Meik'e was widely known as a driver foy Cobb and Co. in the ear'y days, and subsequently as proprietor of the Grosvenor Hote: for many years,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81844, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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161FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81844, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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