TWO MEN INJURED

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1937, Page 2

TWO MEN INJURED

HUTT ROAD COLLISION. [per press association.] WELLINGTON. March 15. Two person# were taken to hospital to-night .suffering from injuries received in an accident on the Hutt road, in which three motor vehicles were involved. The accident occurred about a mile north of Ngahauranga, shortly after 9 p.m. The injured were: E. P. Simmester, a representative of Wellington, injury to the back and right arm, slight concussion and shock. J. Scorringe, a slaughterman, of Petone, abrasions to the face, injury to the back, concussion, and shock. A light coupe motor-car driven by Simmester, which had got into difficulties and come to vest with two wheels in a ditch on the wrong side of the road, was being pulled out by a motor-lorry driven by Scobringe, when the accident occurred. The lorry was just heading for the centre of the road when a third vehicle, driven by A. C. Claris. of Lowsr Llutt. and travelling toward the Hutt Valley, collided with the front of the lorry. Clark escaped injury, hut both Simmester and Scorringe were picked, up from the roadway suffering from injuries. A Free Ambulance vehicle was following Clark’s car, so that the injured were given instant attention. All three vehicles were fairly extensively damaged.