SERIOUS SMASH ON HUTT ROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 961, 31 October 1910, Page 6

SERIOUS SMASH ON HUTT ROAD.

LOADED DRAG HITS TELEGRAPH pole. ■ ' .'■/ A rather serious accident occurred on the Hutt Road, about a quarter of a : mile to- the : north of . the Kaiwarra I railway station at about 8.30 last evening. It appears that one of Lyon's drags, conveying a picnic party homo from the Hutt, while proceeding along at an ordinary pace,; collided somewhat violently with a telegraph post on the harbour side o£ the road, The shock frightened the horses, which broko away after overturning the drag and: throwing its occupants on the road. At it \vas quite dark a scene of some confusion arose.'The ladies of . the party, were naturally much alarmed. Some shrieked, and one is said to have fainted. ■ ' ! , • • •

The most seriously-injured of the party waa a young man l named George Ewart, a single man, 20 years of-igo, residing at 110 Hill . .Street, and ' employed in the Government Printing Office. He had the misfortune to be thrown heavily on to the road, sustaining a fracture 'of the left log. One of the ladies of -the party sustained- a 'sprained wrist, and others wore badly hruised, and suffered a good deal from shock. '

;• Dr. Henry went out to the scene of the accident on being summoned, and l after doing all that lie Could to'relieve those in,distress, sent.Ewart to town by an inbound ■ train . from the Hutt, which was stopped opposite the place for the purpose. The train was met at Lambtou Station by the St. John Ambulance wagon, which conveyed the sufferer to the hospital. 1 The other occupants of the drag- also returned to Wellington by- the' train, none of them very -seriously injured. v . .'vr.

The drag,'which was driven,by Robert Neering,.,stands in need of repairs;' but the horses, which were soon -recaptured, did not suffer to any extent.