MOTOR FATALITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 4

MOTOR FATALITY

COLLISION NEAR BELMONT. WELLINGTON LAWYER KILLED.' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When the car he was driving southward along the Western Hutt Road collided with a Public Works Department steam shovel shortly before 7 o'clock on Saturday night, Mr John Campbell Peacock, a well-known barrister and solicitor. Wellington, received head injuries which resulted in his death in hospital an hour and a half later. The other occupants of the 'car, Mrs Peacock. Miss Margot Peacock and Mrs J. W. G. Brodie, were not injured. The accident occurred just north of the Public Works camp at Belmont. The steam shovel was being towed northward along the road by a motortruck with a second motor-truck following immediately behind to give more light. The car driven by Mr Peacock passed the first motor-truck then collided with a projecting footboard running around the steam shovel at a height of about five feet from the ground and extending considerably on to the offside. It broke through the windscreen and struck him on the head. He was taken to the Knights Road Hospital, Lower Hutt, by the Wellington Free Ambulance and died at 8.20 p.m. Two men riding in the Public Works vehicle were not injured. The late Mr Peacock was well known to many tennis players in the Wairarapa. He used to compete at the tournaments held on the old Bunny Street courts, Masterton.