MOTUEKA CRASH
COURSE OF ACCIDENT UNKNOWN. CAR LEAVES WIDE HIGHWAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. Further details of the fatal' motorcar accident which occurred near Motueka last evening, as the result of which four of the occupants were killed, show that Mr and Mrs Graves and family were returning home after having spent a day in Nelson. Mr Kenneth Thomas, who lives near the scene of the accident heard a great crash, followed by the screaming of the children. Four children were admitted to the Nelson Hospital, Irene, aged nine, Marilyn, five; Josephine, four; and John, an infant. Two suffered head injuries,-and one a fractured leg. The youngest child is suffering from shock. All are progressing satisfactorily. The cause of the car leaving a wide main road has not been ascertained. The stream is dry on both sides of a waterhole. An earlier telegram reporting the accident appears on page 5.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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152MOTUEKA CRASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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