CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 April 1935, Page 7

CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE

ONE KILLED; FOUR INJURED ONE VEHICLE SOMERSAULTS TERRIFIC IMPACT. (By Telegraph —Press Association.! HAMILTON, April 14. Or.ie man was killed and foul other motorists were injured yesterday afteiyioou in a collision at the corner .of Galloway Street and Cambridge Road! between a heavy motor truck ladeni. with drums of petrol, and a tourinU ear returning from a funeral at the. Hamilton East Cemetery.

The victim was a young man named Gillies, son of a garage proprietor of that name at Taupo. aged 20 years. 'Hie injured were: Patrick Shivnan, •severe, cuts, abrasions and shock; Edward If. O’Neill, cuts, bruises and severe; shock; John Sivnan, shock and abrasions; John Murphy, shock and abrasions.

. The truck, rated at 4£ tons, was owned by Mr Gillies, motor, .service station) proprietor at Taupo, and was returning south with a consignment 'cf 200 gallons of petrol in drums when the accident occurred. The car driver, Ali- John Shivnan, was emerging from Galloway Street and the impact occurred on the crown of the road. The two vehicles met with terrific force and the car was struck squarely oh the left-hand side and thrown high into tire air, somersaulting several times before coining to rest with a wheel on; a strip of lawn 20 yards from the pointi of impact. The motor-truck, of which the young man was the sole occupant, mounted the footpath and overturned. The driver was 1 pinned in the cab and suffered extensive head injuries. He died before- his admission to the Waikato liospita 1. Tjie four occupants of. the car had a remarkable escape from serious injury. The truck was not severely damaged but the car was a. total loss. The occupants of the motor-car are reported to be in a satisfactory condition . ■