WOMAN KILLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 4

WOMAN KILLED

FATALITY NEAR GREYTOWN ON SATURDAY NIGHT VICTIM RESIDENT OF PETONE. CAR FALLS OVER BANK. (“Times-Age” Special.) As the result of a car leaving the main road near Greytown on Saturday night a Petone resident, Mrs Edith Annie Ferguson, a widow, 61 years of age, of 25 Priest Street, was killed practically outright. She received severe chest and head injuries. The accident occurred at about 6 p.m. It appears that a salesman, Mr William Henry Welham, of 122 Tasman Street, Wellington, was driving his car from Wellington to Masterton and when he was about a mile north of the Greytown Post Office he met a car with dazzling headlights. He slowed down and kept well over to the left of the road and off the bitumen. As he realised he was getting too far over, he swung the car back towards the right hand side, but it went too far and he lost control of the car. The car fell over the bank, coming to rest on its right hand side and facing in the opposite direction to that in which it was travelling. Mrs Ferguson was the only passenger in the car, Mr Welham suffered injuries to his chest and ribs and after receiving medical attention was removed in the ambulance to the Greytown Hospital. An inquest was opened yesterday and after evidence of identification had been given was adjourned sine die. .