ACCIDENTS AND FIRES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FIRES.

1 MOTOR CAR DESTROYED. COLLISION" AT MANGERE. Following on a collision with a motor lurry, a seveii-sentcr Hudson car, was destroyed by lire in Liverpool Street. : Newton, yesterday afternoon. The car «ns being driven by Mr. Arthur Newdick. of the linn 'of Xewdic.lt Uros., butter mid |i,rodiii'e merchants. Great North Road, and was proceeding along Liverpool Street from Karangahape llojifl. ivlicn it collided with a lorry owned hy L. )). Nathan. Ltd. 'Die benzine tank of the car then burst, and some of the spirit, which was spilled on tn the road, ignited, ilie flames quickly spreading to the vehicle. The City Fire Brigade was summoned, and played pliomicals upon the blaze, hut it was ; impossible to have the car, which was I valued at £450, and whs not insured. j At 4.4 a.m. to-day the City Fire Brigade received a call to (i'rev Street, where an electric cable had fused in the i pavement. The services of the brigade were not required, however, power station officials taking charge of the matter. When drivinc alon S Mnngcre Road in his gig yesterday afternoon. Mr. -I. Sut-j cjiffe. of Iluia Road, was run into by aj passing motor car. with the result thnt , he was sligbtlv injured. urn.-> the vehicle was extensively damaged. The hor.-e, a ] well-bred animal, took fright, add when freed from the harness careered wildly into a barbed wire fence, receiving severe injuries. Mr. Siltcliffe was taken i tn his home in a dazed condition. He j states that the motor car responsible for j the smasli was travelling at a bigb rate I of opeed, and that the driver did not! stop'after the accident. Mr. SutclifTe ! received medical attention, and is now' progressing satisfactorily. Severe injuries were received yesterday afternoon liv William Walker, a j single man aged 41, who lives at 2. Ward i Terrace. Mount Albert. Mr. Walker was] driving a dray at Morningside. and was taking stones from the quarry there to a crusher. Some trucks collided with the cart, witli the result htat it was overturned, and the driver was pinned underneath. He suffered severe injuries abou* the hips and was taken tr> the hospital in a fairly serious condition.