MOTORING ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 7

MOTORING ACCIDENTS

MAN’S THROAT CUT

BY BROKEN WINDSCREEN [FEB PEES 8 ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. April 26. As the result of a motor ear getting out of control on the Waitati side of ML Cargill to-day, a passenger lost his life through having his throat cut when he came in contact with the shattered windscreen. The victim was John Gray, w’ho lived at 14, Frame Street, North-East Valley. Another passenger, John Robert Sheddan, leapt out of the ’ear before the accident occurred, and escaped with slight , injuries to the head and hand. The driver, Peter Garden, of Dunedin, was uninjured. The three men were gold-miners, and were on their way to ■ Pateroa, where they were employed. CYCLIST KILLED. HASTINGS, April 26. Bruce Summiersby, ;20 years of age, of Hastings, was fathlly injured when knocked from his cycle" 'by. a motorcar driven by John Pehder. oJ Waipukurau on Wednesday evening. Sutnmersby was cycling with a girl friend when they were overtaken by Pender just after the latter had passed another car, the lights of which dazzled him so that he did not see the cyclists until almost on thejn. Summersby w r as taken to hospital, but died yesterday morning.. TWO WOMEN DROWNED. AUCKLAND, April 25. Two women were drowned in the upper reaches of the Mokau River as the result of a motor-car skidding and plunging froih the bridge at the junction of the Central’ and Taranaki main highways. The victims were Mrs Charles Hyde, aged seventy-two, of Te Kuiti, and Mrs Coleridge Rait, aged twenty-six, of Ohakune, a granddaughter of Mrs Hyde. The car was being driven south by Mr Coleridge Rait, who, although suffering from shock and exhaustion, reached the bank of the river after trying vainly to rescue his companions. In the fall from the bridge, the two women evidently were thrown into the tonneau and trapped.

DOCTOR RESCUED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 27. Doctor D. McLean, o£ Rotherham, was admitted to the hospital, unconscious, with shock and abrasions, as the result of his car overturning and falling into a creek near Culverden, when returning from Christchurch, last evening. His condition is now JQQ fief A PfOI’V. His head was submerged in the water, when a nearby resident hearing a noise rushed out. BRITISH ACCIDENTS. RUGBY, April 25. Road accident figures for the past week show that 103 were killed and 3942 injured. In the corresponding period of last year, the .figures were 133 killed and 4181 injured. “MOLLISION” MISHAP. LONDON, April 26. At the inquest into the death of a 'man, in which Amy Mollison’s car was concerned, a verdict was returned that death was due to misadventure. Amy Mollison was not called.