MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT

FOXTON RESIDENT’S INJURIES. (From Our Own Correspondent). FOXTON, April 8. Two local residents, Mr G. and Miss N. Woods, a son and daughter of Mr and j Mrs F. Woods, of Russell Street, were | concerned in the fatal motor-cycle acrid- | ent which occurred on the Sandon Road j on Sunday night and resulted in the death of Mr E. Brandeis, of Wellington. They are at present confined to bed as a result of injuries sustained in the accident. Mr George Woods sustained a severe injury to his knee and wrist as well as abrasions all over the body and Miss Nellie Woods is suffering from abrasions of the head and down one side of her body, but both experienced miraculous escapes from receiving fatal injuries. When interviewed they informed the “Standard’s” representative that they sot out from Foxton on Mr Brandeis’s motorcycle, a heavy, four cylinder machine with side 'car attached. The machine was controlled by Mr Brandeis and Miss Woods rode in the side chair, while Mr Woods was seated on the pillion seat. In this manner they went as far as Hawera and set out on the return journey in the afternoon. Wanganui was reached just on dusk whon the lights were swjtched on and everything went well until a few miles south of Sandon. The machine was travelling at between twenty and thirty miles per hour and when a little distance past the Rongotea Siding comer was passed by a car. Mr Woods said that he was then riding between the bicycle and the side car and watching the road in front cf the machine. The bicycle was enveloped in a thick cloud of dust when suddenly he saw a service car approaching only a few feet away. A crash was unavoidable and he did not remember anything else until he found himself in a dazed condition on the side of the road aboftt fifteen feet from the motor bicycle. Describing the oollision, Miss Woods said that after leaving Wanganui she had become tired and dozed in the side chair. She glanced up, however, just prior to the collision and the only thing she could remomber was seeing the lights of a car practically on them. She recovered consciousness to find herself thrown against her brother on the side of the road. Mr Brandeis was on the grass at the rear of the machine with one leg on thp metal. Mr Woods said that Mr Brandeis was frightfully injured but retained consciousness and called out to ascertain how the others were. His leg was badly fractured and the flesh of the calf torn away, while he must also have received severe internal injuries from a blow in the stomach. He first said he could feel his leg paining but afterwards said it had become numb. There was a good deal of traffic on the road at the time and one car took Mr Brandeis to the hospital while another brought Mr Woods and his sister home. The late Mr Brandeis was well-known here. He was a garage proprietor in Wellington and well-known grass track racing motor cyclist. He has ridden at Foxton practically ever since the sport has been in vogue here and had also competed on the dirt track in Wellington. For some years ho had been associated with Percy Coleman in the sport ■ and quite recently he had been offered the position as mechanic on that rider’s visit to England. He was a fearless rider and recognised exponent of grass track racing. Ho was also interested in flying and had a short period to go before obtaining his pilot’s certificate and he had intended to qualify for this by flying to Auckland next week to the air pageant. His ambition was to procure a plane of his own and to fly the Tasman. For some time past he had been in the habit of coming to Foxton and, during the weekend, with his friends, visiting various places. Only last week end ho supervised the motor sports held on the Otaki Beach.