ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A serious accident occurred on Monday morning-, about eight .o'clock, ul the junction of' Devon andriCurric streets. New Plymouth. Mr 0. J. Merrick was ndnia a lady's push bike across Devon street, when si motor evele, ridden by a returned soldier named Hooker, crashed into him. 'I lie foi£e of the impact carried both men and their machines about twenty puces from the point of collision, and.the push bike was damaged lo such';in. eNi-eiit as lo be almost beyond i-Mjuii- Mi llerriek sustained a broken Jeff, an.,] severe wounds to tho head and, face. The ride, of the motor cycle was uninjured. \n aecidoiil of a similar kind occurred on the Oakura road (New Plymouth), on Saturda-y night, when a. motor cyclist named Herbert' Light-band collided with a, boy on an ordinary bike. \, a result of a collision between tv.o motor eyele.K m-ar Midhursi, a. young man named John Stephenson, whose- father ha? recently returned from the ''front, rcceiVjed it fiaetiired leg and otln r injuries thai necesMtated his to die Stratford Hospital..