SENSATIONAL MOTORING ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 8, 4 October 1919, Page 9

SENSATIONAL MOTORING ACCIDENT

[ (v:u; FALLS. OVEIi \ blUDlit . A sensational. motor smash.. occiii;v,ed at : Auburn '(X.S.AV.) recently. j-A'-retnrncd'; soldier, Arthur Leslie liiinsdme, aged 29, ; li'iic'l arrived at l)i(5 Irtcul station withhis : bride. ;.wliom lie liad married .in Ung- ' lain]. His relatives, liliza Ann .llan- ; some, axed <15 ■' (mother), Frank Ran- > sump.' a„'ed 18 (brother), atirl Allen Ban-, sonie,' aged '12- (;\'notlief ' relative),v were wailing to-meet. them .v.itli.a motor-car they had hired; driven liy- ii'iiian named : .TolfiiTG'ffliloiC. jA HW 'grgejinss cut tlio ; platform, Uie parly entprcd tlio car to ■ ho driven'lioirte. (Tun ton drove on io a railway bridge to crow the line,, .but : several pcoplci, being in (lie .roadway lie ; cndc,nourrd to avoid theni," ' swerving sharply io one.-side:-, The esr-croshcd through- the, galvanised iron, sido of the bridge; and fell with-, all' its' ocQiipants - .twenty ..feet to..the rails', below.".lt fell ' .wheels:-; uppermost, mid-the inip.l.e„Jjarly i except^ ; l'ra,nl; Vl)ansome, ,_-.tlift .'-soUiier's ! brother, who iuniped'cleaiVAvcve.pi.nneil undernealh tly* liodv of'the cn'r. Fortunately a fast ."Vhixjugh train had passed bv where (lie ear fell only a. fyw lnin- • • ntes before.. l'eople on- tlic.bridgo climbed down and. lifted , tlie smashed motor, when it was found Hint Mrs."Elizabeth Itaiisonie, I lie .-ohlier's mother, mid Jlrs. llilda liansome, Ihe soldier's wife, ..were .bifilly injured internally. Jolty (junton, the driver of the ear. had his riglit wrist broken. , The. .relii.rnod soldier,""Arlhiir Leslie Ransome. was sulTariiijr frtiiif'&M'cro : injuries.io the head aiidiaco; ';iiid':Allen Kansonie. tlio boy, had a fraelured right ! ami «nd a fractured' left wrist. The hro- ' iher, I'rank liansomo, who jumped'clear, : was sufTeriiijf only from shock, . The victims-of the accident' re- i moved to (he. local hospital. both tha women lieinc unconscious. Their condi- ■ tion is'prccariiiut!.' •