HUTT ROAD COLLISION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 10

HUTT ROAD COLLISION

TWO SERIOUSLY HURT

The Hutt road was tho scene of another serious accident yesterday afternoon when a motor-cycle driven by John David Buckley, collided with a car driven by Canon Percival James, of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. Mr. Buckley and his pillion rider, Miss Irene Higgins, were thrown off their machine and rendered unconscious, but Canon James escaped with minor cuts about the face. Mrs. James, who was in the car, suffered from shock. Canon James was driving his car towards Lower Hutt, and tho motorcycle was proceeding in tho opposite direction, when they collided near Kaiwarra, shortly before 3 o'clock. Miss Higgins, a reader in the Government Printing Office, who lives at 169, Tasman street, suffered a severe fracture to the base of the skull, and Mr. Buckley, a railway fireman, of 190, Tinakori road, received serious head injuries and a .fraeturo of tho right foot. Both patients were admitted to the Hospital in an unco'nscnious condition by tho City Ambulance. Roports from the Hospital this afternoon indicate tliat they- are both making satisfactory progress.