MOTORING ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 7

MOTORING ACCIDENTS

NELSON YOUTH KILLED ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED [pee press association.] ( NEUSON, December 20. Wai-iti road, just beyond Wakefield, was then scene of a fatal motor cycle accident early this morning, and also of another accident at approximately the same time, in which a motor-cyclist was taken to hospital in a very critical condition. Both accidents happened after a dance at Foxhill. Alan M. Higgins, aged IS. while riding from Foxhill to Wakefield on a motor-cycle had a head-on collision with a car driven by W. Greep and was killed outright. Apparently the cycle went beneath the car and the cyclist over it. About the same time. W. Mclvor. of Tapawera. aged 21, went for a ride on a friend's motor-cycle and nothing was heard of him until 8 a.m. to-day, when he was found lying in a ditch on’the side of the road very gravely injured. The motor-cycle was lying nearby. He evidently collided with a telegraph post and suffered grave head injuries. His condition to-night was very critical.

CARS COLLIDE. GORE, December 19. Two men were sent to hospital after a collision between two motor-cars near the Gore racecourse at. 10.10 p.m. yesterday. Bruce Curtis, a salesman, of Gore, suffered an injured elbow, and James McKinnon, a showman, of Beaumont Street. Invercargill, had a fractured collarbone and broken ribs. McKinnon, accompanied by John Scott Lee, of Invercargill, was returning to Invercargill from the Balclutha Show, and stopped his car by the side of the road because the engine was over-heating. Another car driven by Curtis, and containing five passengers, proceeding in the same direction, struck the stationary car. Both cars were extensively damaged. William Cranford, a passenger in Curtis’s car, suffered facial injuries. COUPLE INJURED. DUNEDIN, December 20. After a collision between a car going towards Mosgiel from the south and a stationary car at the Henley’ bridge early this morning, Alma Hoad, aged 20, living at Gordon Road, Mosgiel, a passenger in the moving car, suffered head injuries and a fractured right hand, and William Reid, 21, living at Greenock Street, Kaikorai, w’ho was in the stationary car, received concussion. Both w’ere removed to hospital. CRASH INTO FENCE. WELLINGTON, December 20. Although the body of a large sedan motor-car, which somersaulted and crashed into a fence on the Hutt Road in the early hours of Sunday morning was smashed almost to pieces, its four passengers escaped without injury except for minor cuts from flying glass. The driver, C. D. Macdonald, an accountant, of Island Bay, was taken to hospital suffering from concussion, a scalp wound,, and abrasions to the face.

It is believed that a tyre punctured and the driver lost control. The car swerved on to the cycle track, rolled over for 25 yards, and then crashed into the wooden fence protecting the railway line, smashing five posts. SIDE-CAR MISHAP. WELLINGTON, December 20. Two persons were injured in an unusual accident at Paekakariki on Saturday afternoon, when the connecting bar between a motor-cycle and a side car collapsed. The driver, S. Tann, a window cleaner. of Wellington, was taken to hospital suffering from concussion and shock, and an injured left shoulder. The passenger in the'side-car, Mrs. L. Tibbetts, received concussion and shock, an injury to her back, and a contused left eye. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, December 21. William Joseph O’Brien, 25, clerk, was fined £2O by Mr Mosley, S.M., for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. His license was endorsed, and suspended’ until May 31 next, and local authorities were ordered to be notified. He agreed to take ou.t a prohibition order against himseif for a year. Defendant was found asleep in a stationary car, at four o’clock on Sunday morning. His counsel said that he had attended -a dance, and had liquor. He drove some friend's home, and, feeling the effects of fatigue and drink, decided that it would be unsafe to drive to the suburb where he lived.