MOTOR SMASH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 11

MOTOR SMASH.

FOUR INVOLVED.

MT. EDEN ACCIDENT. CYCLES AND CAR COLLIDE. GIRL PEDESTRIAN STRUCK. Two motor cyclists, a pillion rider and a girl who was standing near the intersection when the accident occurred, were injured early this afternoon following a serious collision at the corner of Rautangi Road and Mount Eden Road. A motor car coming into the city came into collision with two motor cycles, the riders anti a. pillion rider being thrown off. The girl, Creener Rattray, of 7, Mount Eden Road, was struck by one of the motor cycles as it bounced off the car. She was not seriously hurt.

The two motor cyclists and the pillion rider admitted to the Auckland Hospital were: —

If. Laver, of 26, Devon Street, Newton, concussion and foot injuries; condition satisfactory. H. J. Barley, of 41, Wairiki Road, Mount Eden, fractured right leg; condition not serious. A. E. Adams, of 2, Windmill Road. Mount Eden, compound fracture of right leg; condition satisfactory. (Mr. Adams was pillion riding.) Miss Creener Rattray, who was standing on the corner, was not admitted to the hospital, but was able to walk back to her sister’s home, where she is resting. Story of Eye-witness. An account of the accident was given by an eye-witness, Mr. F. J. Glover, of Mangere, who was going home with his daughter on a. motor cycle down Mount Eden Road. He said that the car, a sedan model, was coming up Mount Eden Road towards the city and had crossed both sets of tram rails and was just about to straighten up to enter Rautaugi Road.

The two motor cyclists, one with a pillion rider, shot round the corner of Alount Eden Road, coming from the direction of the city, just above RanRoad, at what seemed to him to be. a fair speed’. “What happened then happened fast.” said Mr. Glover.’

“There seemed to be two impacts, and the next thing was that both cycles left the road and landed on the pavement, one a few yards into Rautangi Road and the other a few yards past the corner down into Mount Edon Road. The car itself was pushed down past the corner of the street into which it was "ding, and came to rest about a car’s length down Mount Eden Road.” Air. Glover said that he hurried down to the house of Dr. T. Derrick. What Taxi Driver Heard.

A taxi driver who lives just about opposite the scene of the accident on the other side of Mount Eden Road said that he heard the two cycles pass, and almost immediately afterwards a crash. He rushed out of his house across the street and saw the three men lying on the ground. One. was stretched out on the pavement a few feet along Rautangi Road and the other two side by side along the fence. The young woman was visiting her sister, who lives at 3, Rautangi Road. ■She had been sent on a message from the latter address, and was on her way to a shop when the accident happened.