Margaret Alice Packer (c1885-1937)

Reports on death
KILLED IN ROADWAY.

Mrs. Margaret Alice Packer, 52, of Kurrajong, was knocked down by a lorry and killed near Richmond on Saturday. She had been on a shopping expedition, and was walking home with George Henry Wilson, also of Kurrajong. When the lorry driver sounded his horn both ran to the side of the road, but in different directions. In attempting to drive between them the lorry driver hit the woman.

Mrs. Margaret Olive [sic] Packer, 52, of Kurrajong, was killed by a motor lorry while walking along Kurrajong Road, near Richmond, at 7 p.m. on Saturday night. The lorry swerved to avoid another person, and struck Mrs. Packer, who died on the way to hospital.

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