TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED
CAR DROPS INTO STREAM
THIRD OCCUPANT INJURED
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN. November 29.
Two young men were killed and a third was injured when a light English car in which they were riding crashed over the retaining wall into the Leith stream at Clyde street at 1.30 a.m. today.
Those killed were:
Brian William Adair, aged 19, of 123 York place, who was driving.
Laurence George Whale, aged about 20, of 51 Lawrence street, Mornington.
A passenger in the back, John William Harper, of 215 Andersons Bay road, was taken to the Dunedin Public Hospital with injuries and shock.
It is understood that Adair had dropped a passenger in Dundas street and was coming back along Clyde street towards the city. The Leith stream divides Clyde street and the two parts are linked only with a foot bridge.
The crash and calls of help from Harper wakened nearby residents and within minutes the police, ambulance and fire brigade were on the scene.
Policemen wading in water up to their waists extricated the dead and injured from the car, which was lying upside down in about 3ft of water.
A detachment of police waded down the Leith as far as the entrance to the harbour, looking for the body of a fourth man they thought was in the car. He had been dropped at his home only a few minutes before' the accident.
Nearby residents said that this was the third accident to happen in exactly the same spot. The other two accidents, however, did not have fatal results.
Where the roadway ends on either side of the Leith, light wooden railings, painted white, mark off the end of the road. -Press, 1/12/1952.
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