ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

STATIONARY CARS STRUCK. (Per Press Association). PALMERSTON N., September 30. An unusual double accident, in which a car struck another vehicle that had previously been involved in an accident, occurred on the main highway two miles north of Waikanae last evening. Several persons, including bystanders at the first accident, were injured. Miss Gould, matron of the Otaki Children’s Health Camp, suffered injuries from whibh she died in the Palmerston Hospital. Others injured were Mr Neate and Mr W. H. Wills, formerly principal of the Otaki Maori College. Both were admitted to hospital. The first accident occurred about G. 45 p.m., when Dr. F. Neate’s car, which was travelling north, struck a stationary vehicle Dr. Neate was slightly injured. He had several passengers in his car, one of them -being-Mr Wills. Two others in the doctor’s car were also slightly injured. While the first accident cases were being attended to, another car, driven by Mr W. A. Paris, of Palmerston North, also travelling north, struck Dr. Neate’s car. Miss Gould, who wa§ standing on the road at the time, had driven Dr. Neate’s father to the scene of the original accident. Mr Neate was also standing on the road when the second accident occurred.