SHOCKING ACCIDENT
MOTOR COLLIDES WITH WIRE FALLS 400 FEET THREE LIVES COST. Received June 11, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, June 11. A motor-car containing six women and the driver collided with a bullock team on the road near Dugong, and was thrown down an embankment four hundred feet. Margaret Forte was killed instantly. Helen Gibbs and Phcebe Scudds died in hospital. Two other women and the driver were seriously injured. The bullock team was i drawing a log across the road by a steel wire, which the driver of the car failed to notice. He collided with the wire, which inflicted face and scalp wounds on all the occupants. The car then got out of control and plunged over the embankment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 5
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120SHOCKING ACCIDENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 5
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