SHOCKING FATALITY.
AT RAILWAY CROSSING
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TLMARU, Last Night
Vivian Ooira, aged 21, a postal employee at Temuka, while riding a motor cycle with a side-car, in which E. Horgan rode, was crossing the railway at Temuka, when the first north-going express caught them and struck the hind wheel of the cycle. Both were thrown a long way along the line. Horgan scrambled out of tho way with a bruised knee. Coira had one leg cut off, the other leg find both arms being broken. He died shortly after his removal to a private hospital. The deceased was a very popular young man, and the son of Mr Peter Coira, long and wellknown as an hotel-keeper, and his death has caused a great shock to Temuka.
Later. ) Coira's leg was not cut off, but both were broken and the skull fractured. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. He was flung against the post of a cattle stop, and tho fence and post were shifted a foot;- He died on the way to the hospital. ■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 5
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178SHOCKING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 5
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