MOTOR TRAGEDY
AN AMERICAN KILLED. ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TAIHAPE, June 11. One man was fatally injured and another badly hurt at 10 o’clock last night when a three-ton U.S.M.C. truck left Ellis Road, Taihape, and crashed down a steep hillside for 200 feet, turning over several times and coming to rest against the fence bounding the main trunk railway line. One of the occupants died in the Taihape Hospital at 5 o'clock this morning. He had a fracture of the base of the skull, with laceration of the brain. The driver of the truck is in a serious condition with a fractured spine and internal injuries. He is now conscious. A third occupant of the truck was unhurt.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1943, Page 2
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