MOTORING MISHAPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 8

MOTORING MISHAPS

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

[PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

HAMILTON, February 27.

Fatal injuries were sustained by George Deacon, 23, when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a lorry in Ward Street, Hamilton last night.

, Leslie Emerson, 23, who was pillion > riding on the motor cycle lies in the hospital in a grave condition. Both were thrown heavily with the impact, sustaining fractured skulls. Deacon is a representative South Auckland Association footballer. INTOXICATED DRIVER . p ' —; MASTERTON, February 26. At the Magistrate’s Court Albert John Udy was fined £25 and his license was cancelled for tweve months on a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. On a charge of, having committed an indecent act he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. CROSSING COLLISION CARTERTON, February 26. A delivery truck belonging to the W.F.C.A., Ltd., driven by Burney Whitburn, attempted to cfloss the railway line at Belvedere Street yesterday afternoon and was Struck by a mail train. The engine crashed into the front wheels of the truck, whirled it completely round and flung it into a fence. Whitburn walked out of the cab unhurt. The truck was badly damaged.

TRAFFIC INSPECTOR CHARGED.

CHRISTCHURCH, February 27.

Neil Ewing Colville, single, was remanded to March 6 to-day on a charge of negligently driving a motor-car in Victoria Street, and thereby causing bodily injury to Frederick Henry John Clark, an elderly men. The police said that Clark was on the seriously ill. list. Bail was fixed at £2OO.

Colville is a traffic inspector employed by the Waimairi County Council.

ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE.

CHRISTCHURCH, February 27

Leslie Norman Mclntosh, 26, a fitter, was committed for trial this morning, on a chrge of recklessly driving a motor car on the North Road on January 25, and thereby causing the death of George Harland Garbutt. The case was heard at. Kaiapoi. A doctor gave evidence that accused smelt. strongly of liquor after the accident. Another witness said* that accused was on the wrong side of the road.