MOTOR ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 11

MOTOR ACCIDENT

THREE PEOPLE'INJURED

GUST OF WIND (BLAMED

A gust of wiud is said to have been the cause of a motor collision on the main road at Himatangi yesterday morning, as the result of which three people were taken to the Palmerston North Hospital. The victims of "the accident arc Miss Mabel Carston, who suffered severe injuries and shock and is 'iv a serious condition; William Dewis, aged 10, who has a fractured leg; and Mr. Carston, who suffered general abrasions and shock, but is in a satisfactory condition. According to the "Manawatu Daily Times" report of the affair, a car, driven by the Rev. P. Leonard, a Maori minister, of Marton, who was accompanied by Mr. W. Larkin, had pulled up well over to the left-hand side of the road, opposite the meeting house at Himataugi, where the minister was to conduct a service, when a baby car driven by Miss Carston, of Feilding, in passing the stationary ear, struck it on the hub of tho right-hand wheel. The shock caused the driver of the light car to lose control of the vehicle, which left the' road and. shot across the railway'line; where it came to a stop after rolling over several times. Both ears were headed in the direction of Foxton. The baby car was badly smashed; There'was a strong westerly^ wind.blowing across the road at the time and it is believed that an exceptionally strong gust was responsible for the smaller car swerving into the larger one, the occupants of which were in no way injured.