ROAD FATALITY
MAN KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR ON HUTT ROAD.
FIRST DEATH SINCE DECEMBER 5.
(By Telegraph—Press Association i WELLINGTON, This Day
Wellington's long period of freedom from road fatalities ended this morning when Phil Commons, of 25 Sydney Street, Petone. was knocked down by a car on the Hutt Road and suffered a fracture of the base of the skull, from which he died in the public hospital* an hour and a half later. Commons, who was employed on housing work in Onslow Road had alighted' from a bus with another man and ran in front of the bus, making for the other side of the road. He was struck by a car coming from Petone. His companion escaped injury. The fatality brought down the city’s road safety pennant, which had been flying since December 5.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 6
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137ROAD FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 6
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