MOTOR FATALITY
CAR SKIDS .AND OVERTURNS.
MAN KILLED OUTRIGHT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, April 27
One man was killed and two others seriously injured when a tourer mo-tor-car, in which they were travelling from Wairanga to Te Kauwhata early this morning, skidded on the road, turned three or four somersaults, and came to rest upside down. The victims were: —
Killed. Lloyd Derrick, Wairanga. injured. Tony Alexander, aged 18, farm hand, Wairanga: condition serious. Ernest George. Wairanga: condition serious.
The accident occurred about a mile and a half up the Wairanga Road. Tliere was a large pool of waler on the surface, and it appeared that the driver of the vehicle was dazzled when the lights of the car shone on the pool. He attempted to swing the ear over, but turiied too tar. mill it got 0111 <>! eoiitrcil tiiiaily mining over and coming to 1 eel "ii ii jiood. Mr Beiriei: w.t: i.iiled outright. T)ii c morning Mi I L'?■ legained eonseiousness. bill Mi Alexander is still dangerously ill-
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 6
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