- FATAL CAR SKID.
WOMAN KILLED AT LILLYDALE. A mother and her son injured.
One woman was killed outright, and the woman driver of the car and her son were injured, when a motor car skidded and overturned on Melbourne-road, Lillydale on Saturday afternoon. The victims were:-
KILLED.
JULIA MARY CLARK, 54 years, married woman, Buckingham-street, Richmond.
INJURED.
MRS. BESSIE GUNDLACH, Church-street, Richmond, admltted to prlvate hospital at Ring wood suffering from a crushed hand and leg injuries. ROBERT GUNDLACH, 14 years, her son, same address, admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured shoulder blade and head injuries.. The party, which included Flossie Gundlack, 16 years, who escaped with bruises, was returning from a run into the country. Mrs. Gundlach was driving, and when between Lilydale and Ringwood, at the junction of Melbourne and Croydon roads– the car got off the crown of the road and skidded in the loose metal. Mrs Gundlach was trying to regain the road, when the car overturned.The driver and her son and daughter were thrown clear, but Mrs Clark was pinned beneath the overturned car. Several passing motorists raised the car and extricated the unfortunate passenger but death had apparently been instantaneous. The others were brought to Ringwood and admitted to a private hospital.
Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Monday 15 April 1929, page 11
CLARK.—On the 13th April, 1929 (the result of accident) Julia Mayt, the beloved wife of J. W. G. Clark, of 13 Buckingham street, Richmond, loving mother of Mrytle, Phyllis, Eliza, (deceased), Walter (deceased), James (deceased), Carter, William, Kenneth (deceased), and George (deceased), loving daughter of W. J.
Whittick. (No flowers.) Rest in peace
Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Monday 15 April 1929, page 1
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