TRACTION ENGINE ACCIDENT.
DRIVER KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. A fatality occurred this morning at Piiketitiri, about 35 miles inland from Napier, whereby a single man named Allen Nicholson, 23 years old, lost his life. Nicholson was driving a tractionengine, bringing two truck loads of timber to town, and when an embankment, about a mile along the road, was reached, the steering-chain carried away and the engine went over the side, dragging a truck; with it into a gullcy 12ft deep. The engine turned completely over. Nicholson was struck on the head with the drawpin of the trailer, the iron penetrating the head and causing instantaneous death.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 210, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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109TRACTION ENGINE ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 210, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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