MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1939, Page 5

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

ACCOUNTANT KILLED

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, May 15

Ono man was killed, and two wei injured, when a car left the Rabat lanui-l lay wards road about 10- o’cloc last, night, about a mile from I‘ahaut; nui.

Peter linley Frederick Saunders. 25 accountant, of Grant Road, Welling ton, son of Mr. Imlay Saunders, ol Wanganui, was killed. Those injured are Jack Shelly, company manager, owner of the car, and Sidney Archibald Wiren, solicitor, both of Wellington.

The party is thought, to have been returning from Wanganui. The car was completely wrecked. It is understood. that Wiren. was driving. Neither he nor Shelly is in a serious condition.

Saunders received his Public .Accountant’s Certificate only last week. He was a well-known member of the Star Boating Club and the Hutt Golf Club.

DRIVER FATALLY INJURED. TIMARU, May 14. A fatal accident, occurred! about a mile from Fairlie on Saturday evening, the victim being Humphreys Frederick Brosnahan, 29. With two companions, he was returning from a. football match at Fairlie, when the car. which was driven by Brosnahan, ran into a. car which had pulled up on the roadside, because of a broken petrol pipe. Brosnahan was thrown neavily against the steering wheel, suffering severe injuries to his chest. He died before medical aid arrived. His companions suffered only minor injuries. The driver of the stationary car, John C'resswcll Harrison, of Winchester, was knocked over when the impact occurred. He escaped, with' minor .injuries. DEATH FROM INJURIES. C,T ? I*ITJ.STO.HURCH, May 14. John William. Campbell, a labourer, 50. died in the Christchurch Public Hospital,'ye sterday. morning. He -was admitted on Thursday night, suffering

from injuries received when he was struck' by a car on the Main North road, about 200 yards on the city side of the Styx overhead bridge. Campbell was thrown through the windscreen of the car when it struck him.

CYCLIST’S DEATH

AUCKLAND, May I.T-

A cyclist, William Stephen Scott, 59, married, living at Otahnhu, died in hospital this morning of injuries suffered in a collision with a motorcar, at the intersection of Huia road and Great South road, at Otahuhu, late yesterday afternoon.

MARRIED COUPLE; INJURED

HASTINGS, May, 14

When the motor-cycle on which they were travelling collided Avith a car on a bend of the Napier-Taradale road, at 7.15 p.m. yesterday, a. man and hi? wift were thrown off and suffered severe injuries. The injured were John Murtagh. 26, of Hastings, -concussion, head lacerations and. fractured arm, and Henrietta. Murtagh, concussion, lacerations and shock. Murtagh was admitted to- the Napier Hospital. His- condition is satisfactory. His wife was later discharged, her injuries not being serious.

CAR OVER BANK.

PAHIaTUA, May 13

A. car. the driver of which has not been identified, went over a 100-foot bank this morning, on the main road seven miles south of Eketahuna. The cai somersaulted through a fence, and came to rest in a paddock. The driver suffered' shock, the loss -of several teeth, and cuts. He was alone in the car, which, was of Auckland registration and had demonstration plates inside. The man was brought to Pahiattm Hospital, but he was unable to .state his identity.