MOTOR TRAGEDY

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1925, Page 3

MOTOR TRAGEDY

AFTER. AX ■EXEXI.XC..OAR GOES OVER BANK. WELLINGTON, June 2!l. About two o’clock tins morning, n motor-car plunged over a ba.nk -m lamanca road, nc:ir the Kclburn trimway bridge, with the result that ;i young man. Maclntyre, believed to be a resident of the Hutt was kilim;while Jack King, Webb Street, injured internally, Mrs King bus an injured back, and a man named Helper suffered a broken nose. The- night was dark, and the ma<l was steep, wet and slippery. The deceased, Thomas Campbell. •Maclntyre, single, 29, architect s draughtsman, residing Lower Hutt, bad been attending am evening at Kelburn, at which fourteen were present. Deceased xvith three others left about 2 a.m. in a throe senior car. The accident occurred after the car had been travelling about !>!■’ yards. It appears from the wheel marks that the ear got over too fai into the xvater table under the tram- • way bridge on the right hamd side "I ! the narrow road which is about six yards wide. It then sheered <>lT i“ the loft side going over the bank yards away, dropping and overturning down a 15-foot bank on to a private road below. The other occupants arc still in th-' hospital. Mr. King has a Hactm" ’- pclvis. AU the injured are from shock. Residents of Salmananca Road were aroused by Mrs King and hurrying down the road. hem 1 , th 1 ' enr enpsized, with two im-u ;nsio<. Eour rescuers lifted the ear and ex tric/a'led. Maclntyre who was dt-a” and King who was uncousc ox-. tor. police and ambulance \\oi-. 01 ■■ ed. Tlie resin,-i-., meant-.nie were 'a able to do more than shield the n jured from the rain. Helper stated that the ear wanroviiig slowly as there is no light .o the ei.riter. He did not know how th,- accident happened. The pan.' had spent the evening at a house m Kelburn. THE IXQI ESI. THEORY OE Till ACt llil'Xl. \\ 1<1.1.1 Xl .T' >x. -Inn. 29.Xotliillg to shell light on tile I*l' -I of the car going over tile- liani. an i causing the death of Maeharlane, elieiu-d at the inquest, which was opened to-day. It was stated that the deceased, who was at the wheel wav not a (•('Used drivt’i. Ono theory, which is supported iw a photograph of the road, showing (he wheelina.iks. is that flu- wii.-el-of the ear were jamhed m a wail' ' table OU tile hill llhe safe) side ol the road, aiid that. Maeailane in ,u doavoiiring io exlrieate tin- cm, t>ml eel too much to the right, and -a th,- car, when clear ol the ruts. ~i. -I across the road, and skidded on > >'■' slippery mad to ihe bank belorc 1 could be righted. Miicl-'arlam- ir.uo have been IQJIed. instantaneously. The others are progressing lavoiir ably. ( I.ARA Bl I IT e.'-R KILLS CYCLIST. LONDON, June 2S. The "Sunday .Express’’ says tnat ;i motor cyclist collided at a notorious danger point with a motor ear m which Dame Clara Butt was returning to her home from Bristol, where she gave a concert in connection with her silver wedding. The ear was filled with bouquet.'. 'I he motor cyclist died soon alter being sent to the hospital.