MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 9

MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 15. Two young motor cyclists were killed in accidents to-day. At Belfast this morning Herbert Beattie Stone, aged 1 17, of Radley Street, Woolston, riding a motor cycle, met a motor car in a head-on collision, and was killed instantly. Apparently he pulled out of the line of traffic to turn a corner, and met a car coming in the opposite direction. Edward Wilson, a young married man, living at Sinclair Street, North Beach, was motoring on the Maiznairi Beach in company with R. M. Bickerton. Noticing his companion had dropped back! Bickerton looked round and saw Wilson lying on the sand near his machine, the front tyre of which was flat. It is presumed the bursting of the tyre caused Wilson to he thrown from his machine. He was suffering from injuries which proved fatal.

A head-on collision in Doris Road this evening resulted in four out of the six occupants of the cans receiving injuries necessitating their removal to hospital. The drivers of the cars were Henry Claude Lovell and Raymond Thomas. Neither was injured, hut passengers in both cars were hurt. The injured were William Mclnnes, who has injuries to the face; Winnie Mclnnes. aged 10, who has a fractured leg; Daphne Mote, aged 14, a fractured nose; Thomas Canty, injuries to the nose. Both cars were badly damaged. It is alleged that several bottles of beer were found in Thomas’ car after the police arrived.