ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
CAR SMASHED TO PIECES.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, May 9. A fatal motor accident occurred yesterday near Church Bay on the opposite side of the harbor to Lyttelton. Robert Hunter, a farmer at Amberley, had taken a party over the hills on Saturday to spend the week-end with a brother. Yesterday morning the party with the addition of John Hunter and Oliver Hunter, brothers of Robert Hunter, farmers on the peninsula, made the trip to Diamond Harbor, and on the return journey, when descending the Church Bay Hill, the front wheels of the car skidded, and, swerving towards the edge of the road, smashed into a wire fence, and for a brief period, the car hung in the wires, enabling John and Oliver Hunter and their daughters to jump clear, they escaping with minor injuries. Robert Hunter, who was driving, and Mrs. Oakley, his married sister, were unable to get clear, and the car plunged over the edge of the road down the declivity almost to the sea, a distance of several hundred feet, and was smashed to pieces. Mrs. Oakley was found dead and Hunter badly injured, having three ribs broken.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1921, Page 7
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195ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1921, Page 7
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