FOUR INJURED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 2

FOUR INJURED.

CAR HITS PIECART. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 12. Four men were injured when a motor-car ran into a piecart near the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets at 12.20 this morning. The most serious injuries were those ot 11, T. Fraser, 15 Vickery Road, Sockburn, who received a compound fracture of the left leg and was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, where his condition to-day was reported to be satisfactory. F. Quartly. of Templeton, received injuries to the face and head, and was treated ns an outpatient at the hospital. Jeffrey Vivian Coira. St Asaph Street, an attendant, received injuries to the right arm, and George Rowland Hill, 74 Queen Street, another attendant, was scalded on the left arm by the overturning of a coffee urn. Coira was treated as an outpatient and Hill was attended by the St. John Ambulance. The piecart was extensively damaged, being pushed on the footpath by the car, which was travelling in a westerly direction along Armagh Street. The cart stands alongside Victoria Square on the right-hand side of the road from the direction in which the cur was travelling. There were about a dozen persons at the cart at the time and a number of bystanders and bicycles about, so that the accident caused considerable commotion. The evening was foggy. The piecart is owned by R. Musson; The driver of the car was arrested