CAR CRASHES INTO STREAM
INJURED PASSENGER DIES ACCIDENT NEAR INGLEWOOD [ Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 26. Injuries that resulted in his death in the New Plymouth hospital this evening, were received by a passenger in a car which left the New Ply-mouth-Wellington main road, near Inglewood last night, and crashed into a creek. The driver and another passenger were injured. DEAD. Eric Arden, aged 33, married, of New Plymouth. INJURED. Miss Margaret Ranger, of New Plymouth, condition satisfactory. John Henry Ashman, of New Plymouth, driver of the car, condition satisfactory. The party was travelling to a dance at Inglewood about 10.30 p.m., and on reaching the Inglewood borough boundary, the driver failed to negotiate a turn on to the bridge over the Waiongona River. The car plunged through a fence and boarding, and crashed about 20 feet down a bank into the water, which was up to the top of the doors of the car, an open sports model. Rapid assistance was forthcoming and the injured were taken to the New Plymouth Public Hospital, where Arden died just before 7 o’clock this evening. The car, which was new, was complotely wrecked.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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