SERIOUS ACCIDENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 284, 29 October 1928, Page 6

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

loaded lorry capsizes. FOUR OF OCCUPANTS INJURED. Under circumstances which indicate that at least some had a miraculous escape from death, five men were^ involved in a serious motor accident v inch occurred at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday at Ngawapurua, about four miles from 1 'no I fatality occurred, but the following suffered rather extensive uijuries Barney Worth, aged 19. compound fracture of the left arm. Frederick Habbigan, aged 28, dislocated shoulder and a deep wound on O’Brien, aged 18, severe lacerations to the body and seven broken tC> Roy Rix, .aged 21, broken nose and lacerated arm muscles. Thomas Burke, the fifth occupant of the vehicle, escaped entirely without in]Ua‘“Standard” reporter who made inquiries was informed by one of i party that the lorry, a 30 cwt.vehicle, which was proceedings to the showgrounds at Palmerston North, was travelling down a slight incline at a modcrato speed when the rear left-hand tyro buret. The crown of the road was high at the scene of the accident and there was much loose metal. -Witn. out further warning the vehicle swayed and becoming out of control capsized, turning a complete somersault and coming to rest at right angles to the road. , . , , The driver, Rix, was accompanied by Burke and other in the cab, while the other two were seated on about a ton of camping gear on the rear of the vehicle. Worth was hurled twenty yards, Habbigan pinned underneath and O’Brien thrown to the middle of th X doctor, with Constable Burrell, quickly arrived on the scene from Pahiatua, and all the . injured men were removed to hospital, after receiving medical attention, Rix was discharged. The others are reported to be making satisfactory progress.