MOTOR FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 136, 4 December 1911, Page 5

MOTOR FATALITY.

DRIVER'S FATAL LEAP. By Telegraph—Press Association. Masterton, Last Night. A well known settler of Greytown, named John Cotter, ms motoring from Palmerston North yesterday. When about five miles to the north of Mastertore the car 'became unmanageable when' descending a hill and went over an embankment. Cotter jumped from the car and fell on his head, .breaking his neck and one arm and sustaining scalp wounds. . Death was instantaneous. Deceased leaves a. widow and one daughter (Mrs.. White, of Porangahau). Masterton, Later. At the inquest to-diay on the liody of John Cotter, who was killed in a moitov accident yesterday, the evidence showed that deceased, in company with a chaffeur named Barting, was driving from Palmerston North to Masterton in a new Siddeley car. When ascending a hill about six miles north of Masterton, the ear got into a water-ta;ble. It then sheered across the road and: went over an embankment aibout sixty feet deep. The car fell oh Cotter, breaking his neck and inflicting other severe injuries. Barling escaped with broken fingers and bruises. A verdict was returned of death from misadventure. [The late Mr. Cotter was a brother of Mrs. Freeth, of New Plymouth, and uncle of Mr. W. J. Freeth, of Pukearuhe, and Mr. Pierce C. Freeth, of the Petone Chronicle.]