MOTOR-CYCLE FALLS FROM HILL ROAD

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 10

MOTOR-CYCLE FALLS FROM HILL ROAD

MAN BADLY INJURED (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 17. With a loud crash, a motor-cyclist and his machine left Upland road at 12.30 a.m. on Saturday, smashed through a thick hedge, and fell 30 feet on to the roof of a house below. The motor-cyclist, Joseph Patrick Carey, is still unconscious in the Auckland Hospital with head and other injuries. He came to New Zealand recently from England, and works in a Queen street bank. Mr Carey fell heavily on to the slate* roof, breaking the slates, and ripping away about six feet of guttering. Then he dropped on to a stone wall, rolled off that on to a concrete path, 'and came to rest underneath a row of potted aspidistras. His machine fell about 30 feet away, at the side of the house, and just below a bedroom window. One of Mr Carey’s shoes was found about 20 yards from where he fell, and the other 10 yards further on.

WOMAN INJURED. IN COLLISION

One woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries after a collision of two cars at the corner of Sawyers Arms and Gardiners roads at 2.45 n.m. on Saturday. The woman is Mrs H. S ‘ a '2‘ Ol J; of Mr Harr y Stanton, of 68 Coleridge street, driver of one of the cars involved. The other car was driven by Mrs J. E. Caffin. of 474 Harewood road.

Mrs Caffin was driving south-east along Sawyers Arms road and Stanton north of Gardiners road.