FIVE HURT IN COLLISION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29165, 28 March 1960, Page 12

FIVE HURT IN COLLISION

Head-On Smash At Hutt (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. March 27. Five persons were seriously injured when two cars collided head-on on the Western Hutt road, one mile north of Belmont, at 5.20 p.m. on Saturday. Race traffic had to be diverted through the Taita gorge for more than 20 minutes while the road was cleared of wreckage, and traffic on the Western Hutt road was delayed for more than half an hour. The injured are: Mr G. T. Alley, Director of the National Library Service, of Ebdentown street, Upper Hutt, who was driving one car, suffered severe shock, fractured right thigh, fractured lower leg, and lacerations to his face; Patrick Alley, 18, his son. student, jf the same address, shock and back injur"; Mr R Jacobsen, grocer of Wadestown road, Wadestown, the driver of the other car, shock, fractured right leg. and severe lacerations to the face; Miss E. Herrick, domestic, of King’s crescent. Lower Hutt, shock, a fractured left leg and abrasions to face, and Mr D Salt, policeman, of Fernhill crescent. Wadestown. concussion, shock, compound fracture, to right lower leg, laceration wound to thigh and lacerated left leg. The Alleys were returning from Athletic Park where Patrick had earlier been placed second in both the senior shot put and discus for ■ Hutt Valley High School in the inter-collegiate sports. Mr Alley is a former All Black.

An ambulance returning from the Trentham racecourse picked up Miss Herrick almost immediately. The others were taken to hospital by ambulances from the Hntt Free Ambulance. Hutt Hospital tonight reported Miss Herrick’s condition as improving and the others as satisfactory.