TRAGEDIES & ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 5

TRAGEDIES & ACCIDENTS

CRASH INTO FALLEN TREE. [special to “star.”] REEFTON, May 7. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Thomas Shadbolt and L. Workman, returning from work at a coal mine, were injured in a motor cycle accident, on the Boatman’s Track, near the residence of Mr IL Evans. The cycle was travelling at a good pace and struck a tree which had been brought down ov’er the road that night bv the high wind. Workman was riding pi.-on, and was flung over the tree and rendered unconscious. Shadbolt was hurled into the tree, striking the trunk, and was badly injured. . ■ , On coming to, Workman tried to assist the other man, but was not able to do much until the arrival of other men returning from work. A cal was obtained, and first aid given, and the party came to Reefton. Both were attended to by Dr. Conlon, who ordered Shadbolt’s removal to hospital at once. His condition is not grave, but he is badly battered, and will be for some weeks an inmate.

BLIND MAN INJURED

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION,] CHRISTCHURCH, May 6. A blind man, 'Herbert Washer, aged 47, single, received severe head injuries when struck by a tram in the city to-night. Washer was crossing High Street, near the Triangle, and did not hear the approach of a , New Brighton tram, travelling towards Cathedral Square, for lie walked in its path, ahd was knocked lover and struck unconscious. It is believed the driver of the car did not realise that Washer was blind until the tram was close to him. His injuries, .it is believed, include a fractured skull. His condition is serious. Late tonight he was still unconscious.

MOTORISTS’ LUCKY ESCAPE. WELLINGTON, May 6. Two people had a miraculous escape from death, when their car, this afternoon crashed through a fence, landed on a fowlhouse, and finally ended up in a garden about 60 feet below the road. They were. Mr. and Mrs. J. Royd ot Lower Hutt. Royd was not hurt. Mrs. Royd was able to return home after medical attention. 'l’llo car was extensively battered. Boyd was driving a car down Crawford Road, when the car careered over the curb, and crashing through a picket and rail fence, went over the edge of a deep concrete wall. It landed on four wheels on the roof of a i’owihonse. then after rolling over in the air. sat down on four wheels in the garden further down. COLLISION SEQUEL. NAPIER, May 7. Moss Wylie, a dentist, of Hastings, was charged at. the Napier Court with reckless driving of a car, thereby causing the death of Arthur Gordon Perry, and injury to three other people, on the Main South Road oh April 'Phe evidence showed that a baby car driven by Perry, coming to Napier, was overturned through a railway fence, with a car driven by Wylie, entangled with it.