YOUNG MAN KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 304, 26 December 1933, Page 3

YOUNG MAN KILLED.

LORRY FALLS ON RAILWAY. ACCIDENTS IN TARANAKI. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. With the roads alive with tourist and holiday traffic, over a dozen motor accidents occurred in Taranaki at the weekend. One was fatal, and several others involved serious injuries. A car failed to negotiate the railway overhead bridge near Lepperton Junction, crashed through the railing and fell 30ft to the railway. Mr. Patrick Newton, aged 24, lorry driver, of Waikanae, near Otaki, who was in the car, was pinned under the wreckage and so seriously injured that he died on Saturday evening shortly after admission to hospital. The driver of the car, Mr. Jamee Baxter, sawmiller, of Waikanae, the only other occupant, suffered abrasions and shock. His condition is considered satisfactory. Mr. G. Simmonds, of Cape Egmont lighthouse, who was riding a motor cycle on Saturday with his sister on the pillion seat, came into collision with a lorry. Mr. Simmonds suffered a fracture of the skull and his right arm was broken. He is in hospital in a serious condition. His sister received an injury to the right arm, but her condition is satisfactory. Mr. Benjamin Orr, of Otorohanga, suffered a double misfortune at Awakino. A tyre of his motor cycle burst and he was thrown to the road. Dazed by the fall, he staggered to his feet and was struck by a passing car. He suffered a fracture of the right knee and an injury to the right shoulder. An aged woman, Mrs. Crockett, was knocked down by a car in a New Plymouth street, but was not seriously injured and was taken home after treatment. There were several other accidents, involving slight personal injuries.