WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1944, Page 4

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

PEDESTRIAN INJURED.

While crossing the street at the intersection of Boundary and Mackay Streets at about 10.30 on Saturday night, Paul Costelloe, aged 19 years, a linotype operator, of Blake Street, Blaketown, was struck by a motorcur driven by Thomas Lalor of South / Beach, who was proceeding from the direction of Gresson Street. Aftei being attended by Dr. H. S. Ray and Dr. D. M. Logan, he was admitted to the Grey River Hospital, suffering from concussion. His condition lasi evening was reported to be satisfactory At the time of the accident, Costelloe was with two other men who were grazed by the car, but not hurt. There were a good many people about at the time, as the picture programme at the Regent Theatre had just ended. CYCLIST AND CHILD HURT. As a result of an accident in Bright Street, Cobden, shortly before six o’clock on Saturday evening, two people were admitted to the Grey River Hospital suffering from concussion and superficial abrasions. They were Maureen Finlay, single, aged 24, of 93 Bright Street, Cobden, and Rosemary Martini, aged two years nine months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Martini, of Harihari. The child was able to leave /he hospital yesterday, and Miss Fiffiay’s condition was reported last night to be satisfactory. The child, whose parents are staying at the Cobden Hotel, was crossing the street near the hotel when Miss Finlay was approaching on her bicycle. Apparently, the child hesitated and Miss Finlay applied the brake of her bicycle and struck the child at the same time, being herself thrown over the handlebars on to the road. Bus Leaves Road An accident which may have had more serious consequences occurred about a mile on the Greymouth side of Blackball at about 5 o’clock last evening, when a Railway Road Services bus containing two teams of footballers, left the road. It is understood that the bus was passing a motor car when it left the road and dropped five feet, coming to rest at a steep angle. The thirty or more passengers in the bus, members of the Marist senior and Runanga junior Rugby League teams, which had been playing that day at Blackball, unprepared by the suddenness of the fall, were tossed from side to side in the bus. many receiving bruises and cuts. It is understood that one member of the Runanga team suffered concusssion, but apart from that member, no one else was seriously injured. The men were conveyed to Greymouth by buses which were des- ] patched to the scene. ! CAR FALLS 70 FEET REEFTON MAN’S ESCAPE. A wonderful escape from serious injury or death was that of Mr. H. Patterson on Saturday night. He was driving a* V-8 Ford car along the Buller-Black’s Point road, when the light failed, the vehicle went over a very steep bank. It fell a distance of seventy feet, somersaulting several times in the descent, but strange to relate the car landed on its wheels right at the edge of the Inangahua River. The body of the car wa's extremely damaged, whereas Patterson, who was the only occupant, sustained no more injury than a’ few scratches. ’ The car was recovered today from the riverbank.