TWO DEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6

TWO DEAD

MOTOR TRUCK CRASHES INTO POWER POLE DRIVER SUBSEQUENTLY ARRESTED. PALMERSTON NORTH SMASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., February 26. One man was killed outright and another received head injuries fiom which he later died when a motortruck struck a power-pole in Taonui Street, Palmerston North, on Saturday night. Three other men on the vehicle escaped uninjured. The driver was subsequently arrested. The victims were:— Over, William Garnet, piano tuner, married, of 118 Linton Street, Palmerston North. Taylor, Arthur, upholsterer, Palmerston North. Both men were middle-aged. The truck, which was driven by L. C. De Vantier, aged 22, Palmerston North, was proceeding along Taonui Street at about 10.30 on Saturday night when it struck the power pole. De Vantier and two other men, L. K. Beals and K. C. Romley, were not hurt, but Over and Taylor received severe head injuries. Over was dead when picked' up. Taylor was removed in the Freen Ambulance to the public hospital in an unconscious condition and died two hours later. It is understood that the victims were riding on the tray of the truck, and the three who escaped injury were in the cab. The tray, which received the full force of the impact, was torn from the chassis and thrown across the road. ' , An inquest was opened this morning before Mr A. J. Graham, distiict coroner, and was adjourned after formal evidence of identification.

DRIVER CHARGED. ALLEGATION OF INTOXICATION. PALMERSTON N., This Day. Lawrence Christian de Vantier, 22, the driver of a motor lorry involved in an accident on Saturday night when two men were killed appeared in the Magistrate’s Court charged that, while in a state of intoxication he was in charge of a motor lorry and did negligently drive it, thereby causing the death of Garnet Over. The accused was also separately charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a vehicle. He was remanded till March 6. Bail was fixed at £lOO on condition that the accused does not drive a motor vehicle meantime. PLUNGE INTO CREEK. ONE DEAD, TWO INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 26. Injuries that resulted in his death in the New Plymouth Hospital this evening were received by a passenger in a car which left the New PlymouthWellington main road near Inglewood last night and crashed' into a creek. The driver and the other passenger were injured. The victims were:— Dead: Arden, Eric, aged 33, married, of New Plymouth. Injured: Ranger, Miss Margaret, of New Plymouth; condition satisfactory. Ashman, John Henry, of New Plymouth, driver of the car; condition satisfactory. The party was travelling to a dance in Inglewood at about 10.30 p.m. and, on reaching the Inglewood Borough boundary, the driver failed to negotiate the turn on to the bridge over the Waiongona River. The car plunged through a fence and a hoarding and crashed about twenty feet down the bank into the water, which was up to the top of the doors of the car, an open sports model. Rapid assistance was forthcoming, and the injured were taken to the New Plymouth Public Hospital, where Mr Arden died just before 7 o’clock this evening. The car, which was new, was completely wrecked.