MOTOR CAR SMASH
YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 4. A single man, Adrian Oswall Allison, aged 20, Helensville, was fatally injured when the motor-car in which he was a passenger crashed over a low bank just beyond the Mount Rex railway station on the Helensville-Kauka-pakapa main highway. The driver of the car, Mr Len Gray, Helensville. received a broken collarbone and was taken to a private hospital in Helensville.
Mr Allison was taken to hospital with extensive injuries to the chest and broken ribs. He died about two hours after the accident. An ambulance was called from Auckland, but the man was too severely injured to be brought to the city.
Before the crash the car struck a series of potholes in the road and got out of control. It‘swerved to both sides of the road and then careered ever the bank, landing with its wheels uppermost. Three young children who were also in the car were affected by shock, blit were uninjured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 2
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