ACCIDENT IN FOG

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 11

ACCIDENT IN FOG

CAR HITS PIECART

FOUR MEN INJURED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, July 12,

Four,men were injured ' when a motor-car ran into a piecart near the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets at 12.20 this morning. The most serious injuries Were those .'of'R. T.'Fraser, 15 Vicke'ry R&ad; Sockburn, who received a compound fracture .of the left leg and was admitted to the : Christchurch Hospital, where his condition today was reported to be. satisfactory. , F. Quartly, Templeton, received injuries to the face and head, and was treated as an outpatient at the hospital. Jeffrey Vivian Coira, St. Asaph Street, an attendant, received injuries to the right arm, and George Rowland Hill, 74 Queen Street, another attendant, was scalded on the left arm by the overturning of a coffee .urn. Coira was treated as an outpatient and Hill was attended by the St. John Ambulance. ' .-.■■.•'...■..

The ; piecart was extensively damaged, being pushed on the footpath by the car, which was travelling in a westerly direction along Armagh Street. The cart stands . alongside Victoria Square on the right-hand side of the road from the direction in which the car was travelling.

There were about a-dozen "persons at the cart at the time and a number of bystanders and bicycles about, so that the accident caused considerable commotion. The evening was foggy. The piecart is owned by R. Musson. The driver of the.car was arrested.