SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21437, 1 April 1935, Page 11

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENTS

FIVE KILLED IN AUSTRALIA SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED (ETKITED rR*BS ASSOCIATION —BT lIJtCTSiO TELEGRAPH —COPYB.IGHT.) (Received March 31, 8.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 31. Five were killed and several injured in motoring accidents during the weekend. In ' a collision between their motor-car and a motor-lorry Ronald Baxter, aged 31, and Thomas Foley, aged 55, were killed, and Ernest Baxter, aged 33, and Charles Pearce, aged 58, were injured. The Baxters were brothers. Ernest Baxter was formerly Australian lightweight boxing champion. Two men were critically injured when their motor-cycles collided and burst into flames. Frank Roberts has a fractured ieg and arm, and William Charles Williamson, aged 23, fractured his skull and died later. A car driven by a girl whose name is believed to be Gonnerson left the road when she was attempting to turn on to a bridge, turned over twice and crashed into a pole. Miss Gonnerson and her sister were critically injured and are not expected to live. Another passenger, a man named Whitworth, was killed. Three persons standing on a suburban road were injured when, a motor-lorry crashed into them. In Melbourne two racing motorists were injured, one fatally, when during a test run the car swerved violently, ran up an embankment, and hit a tree. Leslie Cramp, who was driving, was killed. Reginald Leslie, his mechanic, was injured.