A MOTOR SMASH

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 35, 4 November 1922, Page 4

A MOTOR SMASH

CARS COLLIDE ON EAST COAST ROAD » ONE MACHINE DROPS TWENTY FEET MR. K. S. WILLIAMS, M.P. , BADLY INJURED BY TELS3BATH. —PRESS ASS'! JIA.TION Cisborne, November 3. As the result of a motor accident, Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P., is now lying in a private hospital at Gisborne, suffering from somewhat serious injuries, though no exammation has yet been made. Mr. Williams, who returned from the session the previous night, left early this afternoon for his home at Matahiia, near Ruatorea, on the East Coast. The, car contained five occupants. Mr. Williams, Mr. C. M. Sargisson. accountant of the Bank of New South Wales, at Gisborne: Sir. A. Wright, the driver; Mr. Williams’s son. and a youth named Ricketts. Near the top of the Rototahi hill, a few miles this side of Tola go Bay, 74.1 - Williams’s car met on a sharp bend a car coming from the north. Both cars swerved to avoid a collision, but camo into contact, and Mr. Williams’s car went over the bank, falling twenty feet and turning over two or three times before being pulled up by a fence. Messrs. Williams. Sargisson, and Wright were pinned under the car. An ambulance went out and returned late to-night with the injured. Mr. Williams’s injuries are somewhat serious, but no examination of the injured has yet been made.