NINE PERSONS INJURED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21356, 26 December 1934, Page 8

NINE PERSONS INJURED

MOTOR-CAR DASHES AMONG CROWD

THREE YOUTHS KNOCKED THROUGH WINDOW (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGR AM.) AUCKLAND, December 25. At least nine persons are known to have been injured, two of them seriously, in Karangahape road last night, when a large motor-car mounted a kerb and crashed into a crowd on the pavement. In addition, it is believed that several pedestrians suffered injury, but were able to go to their homes without receiving immediate attention. The victims' of the accident were:— Mrs Rose Morrison, aged 37, of Grey Lynn; internal injuries and shock; condition serious. Mrs Maria Ecclestone, aged 42, of Grey Lynn; compound fracture to the left leg, and shock; condition serious. Hugh Boston, aged 55, of Freeman's, Bay; leg injuries and shock. Ernest Leary, aged 47, of Mount Albert; head injuries and shock. Mrs Eunice Leary, of Mount Albert, fractured left shoulder and abrasions. Allan Leary, aged eight, of Mount Albert; abrasions and sprained left ankle. Thomas Ecclestone, of Grey Lynn; injury to ankle. Master Stanley Roberts, of Ponsonby, abrasions to back of legs

and arms. William Mudford, aged 43, of Newton, cut on the right ankle.

The first four victims were admitted to hospital, while the others were able to go to their homes after receiving treatment. The motor-car was driven by James Killen, of Matangi, near Cambridge, who was accompanied by five passengers. It had been parked on an angle, and it was when the engine was being restarted that the car suddenly mounted the kerb. Before the driver could regain control of it, the car travelled across the pave ment, and after knocking three youths through a plate-glass window in the entrance to the shop of Flacksons, Limited, it continued about 15 yards along the pavement. At the time of the accident, the footpath was crowded with people doing Christmas shopping. Amid cries and shouting pedestrians Vere thrown to right and left, the scene being one of the utmost confusion. None of the occupants of the car was injured.