MAN DECAPITATED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 7

MAN DECAPITATED

STRUCK BY MOTOR LORRY. DRIVEN BY VICTIM’S BROTHER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 29. Struck by a motor-lorry which skidded in snow near National Park station this afternoon, a middle-aged man who was standing in front of a stationary vehicle on the road was killed instantly. The victim was Harold LeProu, aged 38, married, a contractor, of National Park. The accident occurred on the Tokaanu Road between the station and the Egmont Box Company’s mill. Mr Le-Prou was driving from the mill to the station when he was involved in a collision with a motor-car driven by Mr Brian Wilson, of the Native Lands Department, Hokianga, who was on his way to the mill. An occupant of the car, Mr R. R. G. Searle, Kohukohu, received head injuries and was removed to the Chateau Tongariro. His condition is not serious. Mr Le-Prou, who was not injured in the collision, stepped out of his lorry and was standing in front of the radiator when another truck, driven by his brother, Mr Basil Le-Prou, rounded the bend in the road. -Seeing the two vehicles on the road Mr Basil Le-Prou applied his brakes, with the result that his lorry skidded. The back portion struck his brother, Mr Harold Le-Prou, who was pinned against the front of his own lorry and decapitated.