ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22717, 23 May 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

YOUTH AND CHILD

INJURED

CAR STRIKES STATIONARY

VEHICLE

[THE PRESS Special Service.] BLENHEIM, May 22. Through a stationary motor-car being struck by an' oncoming vehicle on the Taylor Pass road yesterday afternoon, Colin Stagg, of Spring Creek, aged 17, and a child, Shirley Way, were admitted to hospital, the former suffering from concussion and the latter from cuts and bruises. The mishap occurred about 4.30 p.m. at the bottom of a terrace where the road runs down on to the old river-bed opposite the Meadowbank homestead. As the car went down the slope the driver apparently lost control, for the vehicle veered over to the right and struck a stationary vehicle, the occupants of which were Thomas Edward Smart, his wife, Miss Nola Smart, and Percy Smart. The impact was fairly severe, the oncoming car striking the other on its right-hand side, and capsizing. coming to rest on its left-hand side almost at right angles across the road. Smart's car was pushed back for about 20 feet and damaged along the right-hand side. MAN FOUND DEAD IN BED INVOLVED IN COLLISION ON PREVIOUS NIGHT (PBESS ASSOCIATION TKI.SG IU VI.) GREYMOUTH, May_ 22. Albert Francis Lester, a middleaged widower, was found dead m bed in a Hokitika hotel this iTioinniL,. Me was the driver of a car involved in a severe collision with a car driven by James Fahey near Kumara last evening. Lester complained of being stiff and sore, but apparently was not seriously injured. The cause of death will not be known until a post-mortem is hold, but it is believed that he suffered a fractured skull.