NONE SERIOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 271, 15 November 1937, Page 9

NONE SERIOUS.

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

CREAM LORRY COLLISION.

No serious accidents were reported in Auckland during the week-end. There were two mishaps, one a road accident, but none of the victims is in a serioiis condition.

As the result of a collision with a cream-collecting lorry at Papatoetoe shortly after 11 o'clock yesterday morning, a small saloon motor car -was almost wrecked and the driver. Mr. Bruce Raymond Grace, aged 25, of Louvain Avenue, Dominion Road. Mount Albert, suffered injuries to the ribs, also superficial cuts. The car was proceeding southward on Flat Bush Road when it came into collision with the lorry, which was being driven to the East*Tamaki dairy factory by Mr. Donald Kane, of Buckland. The car was overturned by the impact and extensively damaged. The front part of body and the radiator were shattered and crushed. Mr. Grace walked to a house and there received treatment from Dr. T. R. Plunkett, of Papatoetoe. Later he proceeded home. The driver of the lorry ' was not injured.

A fracture of the jaw and slisht concussion were suffered bv Reginald Arthur John Bushell, aged 18, of Rossmay Terrace. Sandringliani, on Saturday' afternoon when he fell from his bicycle at Ponsonby. He was treated by * Dr. Graham Lindsay and taken to the Auckland Hospital by St. John ambulance.