MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
CAR SOMERSAULTS INTO RIVER
DRIVER KILLED INSTANTLY;
By Telegraph.—Press Association"'.
Palmerston N., Nov.: 4.
A fatal motor accident occurred at the termination of Fitzroy Street last night, when a two-seater car, driven by William Forbes, special representative of the National Mutual Insurance Co., containing two employes of the Grand Hotel (where Forbes was staying), Mary and Kitty Sullivan, over-ran the road and turned a somersault into the bed of the Manawatu River. Forber was killed instantly, and the two women badly hurt and. sent to hospital. Forbes was a stranger to the locality, and evidently did not know that the road terminated suddenly on a river bank 20ft. high. The car shot over the bank and pinned the, driver underneath. Death must have been instantaneous.
Forbes was well-known in New Plymouth, where he was a canvasser for the A.M.P. Society. He contested the Taranaki election in 1911.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1916, Page 8
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150MOTOR CAR FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1916, Page 8
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