SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 16 June 1913, Page 5

SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH.

PALMERSTON N., June 16. Late on Saturday night, when two young men named McCullock, of Hawke's Bay, and Pratt, the youngest son of J. R. Foster Pratt, of Palmerston North, were proceeding to the letter's home at Fitzherbert, the motor car in which they were driving was overturned a short distance beyond Fitzherbert bridge. McCullock. who owned the car, was driving it," and when preparing to negotiate the steep hill, which is approached with a turn, McCullock took too wide a sweep, and the wheel of the car struck the concrete edge of the culvert. The car turned over two or three times and was badly wrecked. Pratt was pinned beneath, and McCullock was thrown out. Uries for assistance were heard by some neighbors, and when they arrived they extricated young Pratt, who was then unconscious. Later, when medical help was obtained, it was found that he was very seriously injured about the head, and had sustained a fracture of the skull. Some of his ribs were also broken. McCullock was not seriously hurt, but Pratt now lies unconscious I A the hospital.