LOWER HUTT ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 65, 14 September 1925, Page 6

LOWER HUTT ACCIDENT

PEDESTRIAN KILLED" AT -ROAD ..''■'' ;' '■ junction. V ".'• ';■■■[

The second' fatality occurred on the Hutt road, /Lower Hutt, 1 between the. entrance to the railway,station .and:the

".'..Vpoiht','.where Te' Monii road ..joins' the ' main: road. A party 'consisting of ■ Mrs. ' Hepplej!-a widow, .residing" at; Central ; . terrace,, Lower, Hutt, her two.daughters,' '■,'; Mvs. •.Fake; .also residing in Alicetown, '■-• -and Mr./ Arthur Armstrong, of.Plunket. nvcrtue, Petone, had . arrived by ■ train ..'»' ■; nti-;Low:er . Hutt •, about 9 o'clock, . and '■'.' were 'ci'dSEiing 'the road to enter Te Jlomi street,' Mrs. Hepple and one ■ daughter ■■- ••■ being sh'g-htly in advance. They ; had ' ■■' just. about crossed the .road when they - heard a. crash, nnd looking' hack found that Mr. Armstrong and Miss Edith ''■■■ Heppld: had' been khockc(t'" down by a ~r rm6tor-"car : proceeding ' tdvyai'ds - Welling»;:''tori'.'"Mrs.''Fake had.also been struck, i. bub was'not knocked down. On making , investigations, ifc %vas .found . .'that .Mr. ■Armstrong had received injuries to his ■'■ head, 'and was in a dying condition. ' Miss Hepple: was unconscious, suffering : from concussion and severe.\.abrasions. - I'ortunately Dr< Dudley was .passing by, "' and ho attended at onco-to. tho'.iauffer- '" (irs, but' Mr. Armstrong...' died almost '',' immediatlev. : The. police. - were , suniTOoned, ;ahd MSbb Heppla was remored to Wellington Hospital. - ■• , ' ■" The. car that struck the deceased was '.: owned by lh~ George . Coopev t iesd

merchant, of Wellington, who had.been out visiting the widow of the late.Mr. F. Cooper at.Lower Hutt. Mr. Cooper, who was driving the car, states that he was proceeding at'a reasonable pace of not more than 16 miles per hour when he saw a car approaching with very bright headlights. Mr. Cooper dimmed his lights, hoping the other car would do likewise, but he states the approaching car did not dim its lights. He states that he saw absolutely, nothing in front, and'was unaware of the presence-of the party until the •'-accident-had occurred. .He,immediately fstopped, 'and did-all-in his power for the injured; and sent a car for the police. -. .

Inquiries made at the hospital to-day elicited the information that Miss Hepple is still in a serious condition, and Has .not yet regained consciousness.' , '. ■ ■ .Mr...'.Armstrong, who .was. 53 years of age, was a married, man, and leaves a wife andtfivefyoung^children. ,;- ti.