MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 5

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

CHILD’S FATAL INJURIES. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. March 12. Elizabeth Shore, the two-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs E. T. Shore, q'he Pines, Kaiapoi. suffered injuries which proved fatal when she fell out. of a. motor-car driven by her father on Friday evening. Mr Shore was returning to his home with his infant son in the front, seat of the car and the other child in the back. About six miles from Christchurch along the Marshland road the back door of the car swung open and the child 101 l out on to the road. A. doctor was called and at first it was thought that the child was not. seriously injured, but she was later sent to the Christchurch Hospital, where an operation was performed. The child died at 4 a.mMOUNT CARGILL COLLISION. DUNEDIN, March 12. Through a collision between two cars on Mount Cargill on Saturday night, Mavis Kenny and Robert Smith were admitted to hospital suffering from fractured arms. The impact. caused the car in which they were travelling to leave the road and roll for some distance down a bank. The other occupants were fortunate to escape with minor injuries. INSPECTOR STRUCK BY STONE. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 12. Traffic Inspector S. Summers, of New Plymouth, is now in hospital, suffering from concussion received when a passing car threw up a stone through the open window of his car. Had the stone not struck his cap, he would have been seriously injured. He was able to control his car after the accident. INTOXICATED DRIVER.

CHRISTCHURCH, March 12. A double accident occurred on the main road near Morven on Friday night, when a car crashed into the bridge over Elephant Hill Creek, turning on its side, and some time later another motorist hit the stationary car head-on. None of the three occupants of the first car was injured. The driver of the second car received' slight injuries to the back. Constable. W. Watt and Traffic Inspector J. Scott were called to the scene about. 10 p.m., and found a sedan car lying on its side just clear of the south end of the bridge. The driver, James Ernest Melvin, of Mayfield, Ashburton, and two male passengers were uninjured. Travelling south, the car had struck the side of the bridge and had torn away the railing to overturn after clearing the bridge. . While the party was at the scene of the accident, a motor lorry approached from the north and’ remained on the bridge, unable to pass. Later, a car was observed approaching from the south, and although Constable Watt signalled it with a torch to stop, it came on and crashed headon into the overturned car and turned over into the creek bed, after forcing the stationary car back several yards. The driver of the second car. James Robert Shearer, Seacliff, who was injured about the back, was conveyed to the Waimate Public Hospital by a passing motorist. A woman passenger was uninjured. In the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning, before Messrs P. Grant anc' C. L. 11. Gunn. J.’s P., James Ernest Melvin was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car. He was convicted and fined £25 and ordered to pay medical expenses, £1 1/-. His driving license was cancelled, and he was prohibited from obtaining another for eighteen months.

MAORI SENTENCED. WANGANUI, March 13. Peni Raehihi, 25, a labourer, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, by Mr. Salmon, S.M., for conversion of a motor-truck, and to 14 days’ imprisonment for being in a state of intoxication, the sentences to run concurrently.