SUBURBAN ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 65, 19 March 1926, Page 8

SUBURBAN ACCIDENTS.

MOTORS COLLIDE HEAD ON. MAN'S HAND CRUSHED. Mr. J. M. Cassie, chief engineer at the Chelsea Sugar Works, and Mr. J. T. Alley, laboratory assistant, were thrown from a sulky yesterday while driving along Onewa Road, Northcote. The accident wa<s eaiused through the liorse stumbling when near the Church Street intersection. Mr. Alley sustained a sprained ankle, while Mr. C'assie received a severe cut near the loft elbow and another on the left knee, which required several stitches. A head-on collision between two motor cars, one driven by Mrs. M. Whale, of .Otahuhn, the other by Mr. W. McCarthy, of Avondale, occurred yesterday afternoon at the corner o* Princess Street and the Great South Road. Otahuhu. Although both ears were .flbadly damaged neither of the drivers was injured. A baby and a lady who were in Mrs. Whale's car were cut on the face by pieces of broken glass. The running-board of Mrs. Whale's car was stripped, the windscreen smashed, and „ the radiator driven in on to the engine. . The axle, radiator, and running-board of Hr. McCarthy's car were bent, and the right wheel was driven into the 'bonnet. Mr. Robert Savage, of Rosella Road, Mungere, while at his work at Westfield this morning had his right hand caught in an oil press, which crushed several of Ms fingers. Mr. Savage was brought into the Auckland Hospital, where lie received, 'medical attention.