MOTORING ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1934, Page 7

MOTORING ACCIDENTS

WESTLAND GIRL KILLED FALL FROM RUNNING BOARD [special to “stab.”] HOKITIKA, December 17. . A motor fatality occurred at Kaihinu, shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, whereby Mary Honey, 17, the fourth daughter of Mr Stephen M. Honey, lost her life. Deceased, and her sister Jessie, had been visiting her father, an inmate Of the Westland Hospital, and were on the way home. They weie within a mile when they were overtaken by a brother-in-law, William Routhan, who-gave them a lift, as it was nearing milking time. As the car was full of people, returning from the funeral of Richard Roberts, the girls stood on the running board, and when almost home, Mary’s hat blew off. Routhan pulled up tiie car, but before it was properly stopped, Mary stepped backwards on to the road, but fell heavily, striking the back of her head. She was taken into her home, and said she was all right. She was a little sick, and shortly after fell unconscious and died. The doctor was called, and he declared life extinct, death being due to haemorrhage.

CAR IN HARBOUR' [per press association.] AUCKLAND, December 16. A motor car fell into the harbour about one o’clock this morning,- and the occupants, two men and two women, had a narrow escape from serious injury. The motor car nearly fell on to a .launch, which was moored at the wharf, the vehicle striking the stern of the launch a slanting blow as it fell into the water. The occupants of the car got clear of the car as it sank, and they then clung to a rope hanging from the wharf. Their cries for assistance were heard by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Niven, who live on the launch “Waiomo,” anchored to near where the car fell in. On hearing the cries, Mr. and Mrs. Niven immediately got into the Waiomo’s dinghy, and they rowed to where the distressed cries were coming from. They helped the four people in to the dinghy, and took them to the wharf. . ■ The rescued people obtained a taxi cab, and they left for their homes. The identity of the four people is not yet known. Their car is still at the bottom of the harbour, and it will probablv be recovered by a diver and the Harbour Board’s transport punt tomorrow morning. DANCERS DROWNED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BRISBANE, December 16. When a dance party were returning home, early on Saturday morning on a motor lorry, from Daybore, the vehicle dashed over a twenty-feet embankment, and fell into Forbes Creek. Two lives were lost. Leslie Cutts, aged twenty-four, and Ross Lacey, aged twenty-one were drowned. Eleven others were injured, some of them seriously. . -