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Kōrero: Road accidents

Early car accident

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Early car accident

This car was a total write-off after colliding with a train in Southland, probably in the late 1930s. Motor traffic began to increase from the 1920s, as did the numbers of people killed and injured on the roads.

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Southland Museum and Art Gallery

Reference: 2007.251

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Nancy Swarbrick, Road accidents – Growth in road injuries and deaths, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20899/early-car-accident (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 17 February 2010, updated 1 December 2014.