MOTOR FATALITIES

Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 6

MOTOR FATALITIES

CAB RUHS INTO iPEDESTRIAHS [Pun UiXiTF.r.) Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Soplember 14._ Tho week-end was darkened ny still another motor fatality, the victims being:— KILLED. A. Armstrong, aged fifty, of tho Lower llutfc, believed to bo a messenger in the Infernal Affairs Department. INJURED. Miss Edith Hepplo, twenty-eight, of Lower Ifntt, who was sent to the hospital suffering from concussion. Airs Fake,'” of Lower Hntt, bruises and abrasions. She was able to proceed to her home. Armstrong, with Mesdnmos Fake and Hepplo and the latter’s two daughters, wont out to the Lower Hntt by tho 8.45 train, and on arrival wore crossing tho road, when a passing motor c.ir driven by George James Cooper, a seedsman, of Wellington, ran into the party, with the result that Armstrong was terribly injured on tbo head, death being apparently instantaneous. It is stated that rain made tho bitumen track shiny, and as another motor was approaching at tho time with bright lights Cooper’s vision of tho roadway was distorted. CAR OVER BANK. September 13. Michael James Bird, a married man, aged fifty-eight years, an accountant at T. and W. Y'oung’s chemical works, Wellington, was killed in a car accident in the Oarlton-Goro road, Roseneath, at 5.10 p.m. on Saturday, the car dropping over a bank 40ft in height. The other occupants were Messrs Wallburton, manager of Messrs Aulsebrook’s in Wellington (who was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition), and Henry Joseph Mac Duff (who is suffering from shock and slight injuries). The accident was witnessed! by a boy named Stephens, who rushed off for assistance, which was at hand in a couple of minutes. Bird was found near the upturned car, with his skull fractured. He was still breathing, but he died a few minutes later. Wallburtou, the manager of Anisebrook and Co., who was driving, was unconscious, and pinned under the oar, while Mac Duff was dazed and suffering from shock and slight injuries. The ambulance was summoned, and removed Wallburtou, whose condition is grave, to tho hospital.