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Extract from Western Morning News, Tuesday, 16 August 1927
Motor-cycle Accident 1927


MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT PILLION FATALITY

22-YEARS-OLD GIRL'S DEATH AFTER ACCIDENT A 22-years-old girl, Edith May Smith, of Burton Latimer, Northants, was killed while riding pillion on a motor cycle to Wicksteed Park, Kettering, on Sunday evening. In avoiding three girls walking in the road, the machine skidded, and the driver, a young man named Williams, and Miss Smith, were thrown off. The girl was taken home suffering from concussion, and died the same night. Williams injured his hip.


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