SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.
MAN SUSTAINS A FRACTURED SKULL. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 23. Air. S. R. Merrett, shops-manager of the Christchurch .Moat Company, was seriously injured last night in a collision between a motor car andtram car on the Lincoln-road. It appears that be summoned Dr. Diamond to attend his wife, who was in a critical condition, and both were proceeding to Air. Alerrett’s house in a motor car. AYlien near Clarenceroad a stray horse wandered across the Lincohi-road, and the motor car, in attempting to- pass round it, collided by some means or other with an electric tram car, which was proceeding in the opposite direction. The motor caw was completely wrecked, three of the wheels being torn off, and tlie occupants were thrown on to the road. Air. Alerrett received a fractured skull, .and was rendered unconscious, but Dr. Diamond was only slightly injured. Air. Alerratt had not regained consciousness up to 5 o’clock tliis afternoon.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2123, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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158SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2123, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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