MOTORING MISHAPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 2

MOTORING MISHAPS

ARAHURA ROAD COLLISION. (Special to "Star.”) HOKITIKA, February 17. The Arahura Road was the scene of another motor collision last night, about 6.20, the locality being the corner about half way between Toker’s Greyhound Hotel and the Arahura bridge, and was between a five-seater Dodge, driven by Mr. Edie, of Blake Street, Blaketown, Greymouth, and a motor cycle driven by a young man named Mills, of Mananui, with a young man named Howard riding pillion. Mr. Edie, in company with Messrs. Petherbridge and Brown, were returning to Greymouth, and on rounding the corner came into a head-on collision with the motor cycle, which allegedly was on its wrong side. Mills was thrown to the side of the road and received very severe injuries, and Howard was thrown against the car. A piece of flying glass from the windscreen struck Brown on the head, inflicting a wound. Assistance was given by the occupants of another car, which came along, and the ambulance and doctor were sent for. On his arrival, Mills, Howard and Brown were taken to the hospital. Mills is seriously injured, the full extent not yet being known. The approaches at the corner where the collision occurred are obscured by blackberry.

GREYMOUTH COLLISIONS. A collision occurred in Mackay Street shortly after mid-day on Saturday, between a car driven and owned by Mr F. Harley, and a delivery van. Mr Harley was coming out of a right-of-way into the main thoroughfare, when the t\yo vehicles collided. The only damage done was to Mr Harley’s car, and Ayas confined to the radiator'. Another and more serious accident occurred late on Saturday at a bad corner inside the town area on Marsden Road, when a motor-cycle ridden by Mr T. Hardigan, with a young man named Martini, riding pillion, came round the bend and crashed into a, car driven by Mr G. C. Taylor. Both cyclists were thrown off their machine on to the car bonnet by the impact and received injuries which necessitated medical attention. The motor-cycle was badly damfiged, and the car apparently only slightly so.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. MARTON, February 17. The Stanway-Halcombe Road was the scene of a fatal motor cycle collision last night. A lad of eighteen, Alexander Leslie Cockburn, -son of Robert Cockburn, Stanway, being killed instantly, while Stanley Anderson of Halcombe, is in hospital in a serious condition. S. Marshall, who was on the same cycle as Cockburn, sustained minor injuries. Cockburn and Marshall were proceeding in the direction of Stfanway, while Anderson was returning home to Halcombe. The two motor cycles met head on, with the aforementioned consequences. CROSSING COLLISION. CHRISTCHURCH, February 16. Robert Bruce Breeze, aged 24, married, who was injured at Templeton level crossing when a train collided with a gig, which he was driving on Friday evening, died at the hospital this morning. CYCLIST’S DEATH. WELLINGTON, February 15. The inquest on Charles Bell, 19, who was killed on the Hutt road on Novem ber 28, concluded to-day. The police had no further information in regard to the car wh«ich ran the cyclist down, and the Coroner returned a verdict that deceased was killed while cycling along the Hutt road; being run down by an overtaking motor cor, driven by some person unknown.. MR HUGHES INJURED. / — — SYDNEY, February 16. While touring the country in forming a new political party Mr W. M. Hughes was injured somewhat in a motor accident. He had as a passenger Senator Duncan, who received severe cuts, and injured his shoulder, but is recovering. Mr Hughes received abrasions and a shaking. His car fell thirty feet over an embankment.

FOUR MORE KILLED SYDNEY, February 17. A level crossing smash,, near Werribee, resulted in th© death of four occupants of a motor car, Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Warner and the latter's two children, aged five and three. Edward Crowley, the driver of the car, his wife and one child, were severely injured. Two other children had minor hurts. A train crushed the car into tangled wreckage. James Ferguson, the other occupant on the front seat, seized a five-year-old granddaughter, Jean Warner, and jumped. The train hit Hie child, killing her. Ferguson escaped with bruises. IMPALED ON SHAFT BRISBANE, February 17. John Seckold and Henry Lawrence, i iding a motor cycle on the Towns-ville-Charters Towers road, were descending a hill, when they met a sulky in a head on collision. The shaft impaled both men, who died later in the hospital.