FATALITY IN PALMERSTON
TAXI-DRIVER CRASHES INTO TREE. SUPPOSED TO HAVE FAINTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ This Day. 4 Colliding with a tree when driving a car in Fitzherbert Avenue, shortly before seven o’clock this morninng, a taxi owner-driver, Cecil H. Terry, was killed instantly. The impact badly wrecked the front of the car, and the driver was thrown against the windscreen, which was shattered, suffering head and other injuries.
Mr Terry had lately been in indifferent health and had been treated for heart trouble. It is believed that he had a fainting fit or seizure, causing the car to swerve off the road and collide with the tree. There was no sign that the brakes had been applied.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 6
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