MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1939, Page 7

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

CAR CRASHES INTO CREEK ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED' [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, February 26. Injuries that caused his death in the New Plymouth Hospital this evening were received by a passenger in a car which left the New PlymouthWellington main road near Inglewood last night, and crashed into a creek. The driver and other passenger were injured. The victims were: — Dead: Eric Arden, aged 33, married, of New Plymouth. Injured: Miss Margaret Ranger, of i New Plymouth, condition satisfactory. John Henry Ashman, of New Plymouth, driver of the car, condition satisfactory.

The party was travelling to a dance at Inglewood about 10.30 p.m., and on reaching the Inglewood Borough boundary the driver failed to negotiate a turn on to the bridge over the Waiongona River. The car plungedthrough a fence and hoarding, and crashed about 20 feet down a bank in to the water, which was up to the top of the doors of the car, an open sports model. Assistance was quickly found and the injured persons were taken to the New Plymouth Public Hospital, where Arden died just before 7 o’clock this evening. The car, which was new, was wrecked.

TWO DIE FROM INJURIES.

PALMERSTON N., February 26.

When a motor-truck struck a power pole at'Palmerston North, late on Saturday night, two middle-aged men suffered severe injuries, of which they died. They were:—Arthur Taylor, Garnett Herbert William Over. The driver of the truck, Laurence de Vantier, and two others who were in the cab were not injured, but the two victims, who were riding on the tray of the lorry, suffering the full force of I the impact, which was very severe. The tray was torn from the chassis and thrown across the street. The driver was later arrested.

ANOTHER FATALITY.

AUCKLAND. February 27.

From injuries caused when a motorcar crashed into the rear of a stationary truck, opposite the Drury School, last evening, Errol Cox, married, 31, a resident of Hamilton, the truck driver, died in hospital, to-day. Six other persons, including two women and a baby, were injured. The truck had been halted by a Highways Inspector, for the weighing of the load. While the Inspector and Cox were talking at the rear of the truck, a car crashed into the rear.

Projecting iron pipes pierced the windscreen, and the passengers were cut by flying glass. Cox was hurled on to the ends of the projecting pipes, and was extricated with difficulty.

CYCLIST IN HOSPITAL.

CHRISTCHURCH, February 25.

Struck by a motor-car when turning out of Aidwin’s Road into Ferry Road about 1 o’clock this afternoon, Charles Harland, of Aidwin’s Road, received injuries necessitating his removal to hospital.

Harland, who was on a bicycle, was struck by the front of the car and carried about 30 feet. Both the front of the car and the bicycle were damaged. He was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by a St. John Ambulance, with 'a. compound fracture of the right leg and head injuries.