FATAL COLLISION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 209, 1 June 1931, Page 11

FATAL COLLISION

Motor-cyclist Killed JOY-RIDERS DECAMP Stolen Car Left By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, May 31. A youth named Raymond Smith, aged 18, a resident of Napier, was killed instantaneously on Saturday afternoon in Hastings as a result of a collision while riding motor-cycle with a car allegedly driven by a person who had stolen it earlier in the afternoon. Another young man named Chee who was in the sidecar attached to the motor-cycle was injured, but not seriously. The driver of the ear and another occupant decamped immediately after the smash and no trace has yet been found of them by the police. The motor-cyclist was riding along Hastings Street toward town about 3 o’clock when the car collided with him at the intersection of Alexander Street. The corner is rather a quiet one and there do not appear to have been any eye-witnesses of the accident, but the occupant of the car, it is alleged, immediately made off without offering any assistance. The car was badly damaged and had to be towed away, and the cycle was very severely smashed. The owner of the car, Mr. Rangi K. Kamau, of Bridge Pa, left it outside Cornwall Park gates while attending a hockey match. Immediately he found the car missing be reported the matter to the police, and it was while he was at the station doing so that the accident in which the car was involved occurred. •

MOTOR-CYCLIST HURT In Hospital Unidentified HUTT ROAD SMASH A collision between a motor-eyelist and a cyclist occurred at about half-past nine last night, on the Main Hutt Road, near the Hutt Valley Power Board’s offices. The motor-cyclist received concussion, and was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance, while the cyclist escaped uninjured. It was not possible, however, to identify the injured man, as at an early hour, this morning he had not gained consciousness. His condition, the hospital reported, was not serious.