One Mail Killed, Two Injured, In Car Crash

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 2

One Mail Killed, Two Injured, In Car Crash

(P.A.) „ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. When a motor-car travelling from Sumner to Christchurch last evening got out of control and struck a telegraph pole the driver was killed and two other men received head injuries necessitating their ‘.admission to hospital. „ , . , The man killed was Frederick Herbert Anderson, 27 years, of 134 Victoria street. Mr Anderson, a single man, was a motor painter. His father is Mr C. E. Anderson, a motor trimmer, of the same address. Those injured were Ernest Hutchison, of Oxford, and James Henshaw. A fourth man, Harold John Anderson, a brother of the man killed, was not injured. The accident occurred about 9.15 p.m. on the sharp corner of the road at Shag Rock. The car struck a telegraph pole on the right side of the road and capsized, throwing the four men out. Woman Killed

A mother of seven children was killed by a hit-and-run motorist near Drury on Saturday night. She was Mrs Dorothy Austin, aged 39, the wife of Edgar Austin, of Ruakaka, Whangarei. Mrs Austin was on holiday at the home of her sister, Mrs Margaret Young, of Drury. They were walking to Mrs Young’s house along the main road. A vehicle struck Mrs Austin, who was on the outside, from behind. She was picked up bodily and carried along by it Cor 110 feet before being deposited in a ditch. Death was instantaneous. Her clothing was extensively torn. After throwing off Mrs Austin, the car continued with two wheels in the ditch for 55 feet before regaining the road. It did not stop. Mrs Young suffered severe shock, but escaped serious physical injury. She had abrasions to a side, which might, have been caused by her sister’s body after it had been struck.—(P.A.) Elderly Man’s Death Struck by two motor-cars on Thursday night, an elderly man has died in the Auckland Hospital. He was Harry Small, aged 70, of Mount Eden. Small was knocked down by a car. While he was lying on the road, he was hit by a second car.— ( RA ' >