MOTORING MISHAPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 9

MOTORING MISHAPS

OVER BANK FATALITY (Per Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, Aug. 29. Another fatality occurred near Dannevirke last evening, when a car went over Gibbs Hill, near Mangatera.. It was driven by James Scott Smith, motor salesman. With him was C. W. Peak assistant in the Government Audit office. The car was on the way to Napier. Nearing the top of the hill it commenced to “shimmy” and almost before the driver could regain control, leaped over the bank, a drop of about 20 feet. Peak was'killed instantly, dislocating his neck. His companion escaped with a few abrasions. MOTOR CYCLISTS INJURED. AUCKLAND, August 28. Two .motor-cyclists, William Charles Skinner and Glenelg Bartanl, collided head on in the Great North Road, Avondale, to-night. Skinner sustained severe cuts on the face and Bartanl had his boot torn off, and received minor injuries to his foot. Both scaped remarkably lightly, however, compared with Alfred James Turner, of Avondale, who was the pillion passenger on one machine. He was thrown heavily to the centre of tho road, and was then run over by a following motor-bus. In addition to a very bad compound fracture of the right leg just above the knee, and a double fracture of the same leg above tho ankle, his right arm was badly broken, and he sustained severe head injuries, believed to be a fracture of the skull. His right leg was amputated shortly after he was admitted to the hospital, and his condition at a late hour was critical. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. ’ SYDNEY, August 29.

Percy Spittlehouse was remanded on a charge of manslaughter, arising out of the Newtown tragedy, when a lorry, driven by Spittlehouse got out of control, mounted the footpath, and killed a man and a boy.