MOTOR FATALITY
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED.
CAR CRASHES INTO TELEGRAPH POLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON. March 22. A young woman was killed and two other passengers were admitted to hospital, one in a serious condition, as a result of a car running into a telegraph pole at VVakatu on the main Stoke-Nelson Road at 1.30 o'clock this morning.
KILLED: Miss Nancy O’Sullivan, aged 20, Nile Street, Nelson, killed instantaneously. head injuries. INJURED: John Sutherland Howard, aged 22. South Street. Nelson: severe head injuries, compound fracture of leg; condition serious. Miss Smith. Nelson: injuries to shoulder: admitted to hospital.
Miss Sadie Howard, minor injuries. James Q’Brien. Annesbrook, minor injuries.
The car was returning to Nelson from (lie country, driven by Alan Brake. Nelson. The side of the car struck a telegraph post, which snapped in two places. The vehicle went through a hedge, struck a tree and returned to the road where it turned over on its side, wrecked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 6
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