TEN CAS MRASHES AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
MOgSTLY MINOR INJURIES NEW PLYMOUTH, Last' Night.' , Ten motor smashes of varying degrees of severity occurred in New Plymouth and district during the week-end, one cause being tne heavy motor traffic oc- . casioncd by 17,000 people attending the ■ . British Rugby match. When his car collided with a stationary ear Norman Coburn, the leader of a dance orchestra, received a severely fractured skull. Gwen Riley, aged 18, received concussion . and shock, while two other girl passengers received shock. Both cars were badly smashed. In another ease a light car driven by D. C. Candish and a heavier one driven by J. H. Moody collided at an intersection. The light car landed upside down on the footpath anid the two occppants miraculously escaped with only slight cuts. A two-year-old child, Lester Gates, received severe head injuries in a collision at Tariki. He is in hospital and is improving. . > Several other accidents arc reported,■ but the personal injuries are only slight.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1930, Page 2
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