TOLL OF THE MOTOR

Grey River Argus, 1 April 1935, Page 5

TOLL OF THE MOTOR

SERIES OF TRAGEDIES On Australian Roads (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 31 at 7.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 31. Four people have been killed, while several have been injured, in motoring accidents during the week-end. In a collision between their motor car and a motor lorry, Ronald Baxter, aged 31 years, and Thomas Foley, aged 55. were killed, while Ernest Baxter, aged 33, and Charles Pearce, aged 58. were injured. The Baxters were brothers. Ernest Baxter was formerly the Australian lightweight boxing champion. Two men were critically injured when their motor cycles collided and burst into flames. One, Frank Roberts, fractured his leg and his arm. The other, William Charles Williamson, aged 23, fractured his skull. The latter subsequently died. A ear driven by a girl, whose name is believed to be Gonnerson, left the road when she was attempting to turn on to a bridge. The ear turned over twice, and crashed into a pole. Miss Gonnerson and her sister were critically injured. They are not expected to live. Another passenger in this car, a man named Whitworth, was killed. Three people who were standing on a Sydney suburban road, were injured when a motor lorrv crashed into them. MELBOURNE. March 31. Two racing motorists were injured, one of them fatally, when, during a test run. their car swerved violently, ran up an embankment, and piled up agaitist a tree. Leslie Cramp, who was driving, was killed. Reginald Leslie, his mechanic, was injured. [West Coast boxing votaries wi 1 recall the visit of Ern. Baxter some years ago to the West Coast, when he met Paul Demskv. the Queenslander, at the Grevmonth Town Hall.]