WOMAN KILLED
CAR FALLS OVER BANK. FATALITY NEAR DUNEDIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. December 20. A fatal accident occurred on the Leith Valley road this afternoon when a motor-car left the road and fell over a bank on to its side. The victim was Mrs Elizabeth Callender, widow, aged 50. Waitati. The driver of the car. Mr John A. Callender, farmer. Waitati. and another passenger, Mr Edwin Charles Jopson, farmer, Leith Valley, escaped with only slight injuries. The accident happened at a narrow portion of the read when the car, which was travelling toward Dunedin, met a motor-truck belonging to the Otago Acclimatisation Society and driven by Mr William Henry Claringbold. While endeavouring to pass the truck the car left the road and fell on to its side on a ledge 4 feet Cinches below road level where it was supported by native bush.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 9
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144WOMAN KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 9
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