MOTOR COLLISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 9

MOTOR COLLISION.

SUPREME COURT CASE. NAPIER, Eeb. 22. The sum of £2566 14s is claimed in damages in the Supreme Court at Napier by Roy Fissenden, of Waipawa, motor mechanic, from M. H. Oram, of Palmerston North, solicitor, for injuries allegedly received in a collision with a car driven by defendant. The case is being heard to-day. The accident concerned in the case occurred over a year ago, and several witnesses are to be called before the case is concluded. Plaintiff is represented by Mr G. G. E. Harker, and defendant by Mr Xlazengarb. with whom is associated Mr R. B. G. Chadwick.

Mr Harker stated that lie proposed to call witnesses to support his allegations that the accident, which occurred on October 26, 1935, had totally incapacitated the plaintiff Fissenden for any work of a sustained pature, however light, and that the accident was due to the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff, who had been employed in a Waipawa garage, was a passenger in one of the firm’s cars going to pick up a client’s vehicle for repairs. Near the intersection of Waverly and Kenilworth Streets a collision had occurred with defendant’s car. Plaintiff’s car was lifted in the air and then flung out of control through a fence. Plaintiff received a heavy blow on the head, winch rendered him unconscious for three weeks. He was very dangerously ill, and was now suffering from double vision in the left eye, an inability to carry on sustained work, a change of temperament, and a deep-seated form of neurasthenia that seemed incapable of cur*. Evidence that marks on the road showed that one wheel of defendant’s car had skidded for 52 feet after the impact was given by Constable R. H. Moss, Waipawa, who had visited the scene immediately after the accident. Before tlie noint of impact, grip marks of two wheels were shown for 12 feet. The latter indicated that the brakes had been applied, but that the wheel hud not skidded.