MOTORING FATALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 8

MOTORING FATALITY

CAR CAPSIZES

MAN KILLED; WIFE CRITICALLY INJURED.

(By Telegraph.—Pr*»s Auociation.) , TAURANGA, 4th December. A 'motor-car fatality occurred about 3 o 'clock this afternoon about nine miles from Taurauga on the TaurangaWaihi road. It appears that Mr, Leslie Allan Cooper, employed by the borough hydro-electric station, M'Laren's Falls, with his wife and two children, drove to Walkino yesterday to bring Mrs. Cooper's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Odium, of Waikino, across for the Christmas. The party were returning to-day, and when they reached the I point stated tho car apparently swerved, hit the bank, and capsized. Mr. Cooper, who was driving, was thrown out through the windscreen, and Mrs. Cooper was also thrown clear. The children also escaped uninjured. But Mr. Odium.was picked up dead, and Mrs. Odium was found seriously injured A passing • motor-car driven by Mr, Hugo Dickson, came upon the party, and found Mr, Odium and the Cooperi clear of the car, but Mrs. Odium and the two Cooper children still mixed up in the wrecked hood. With the assistance of some men who arrived almost simultaneously from the other direction in a motor-lorry, the overturned car was lifted clear. The children wero not injured, but Mrs, Odium was found to be seriously injured and was brought by Mr. Dickson to the Taurauga Hospital, and found to bo suffering from a fractured skull, a broken leg, and internal injuries. Hor condition is critical. The body of Mr. Odium was brought into Tauranga later.