Car Skids Into Pole

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 149, 25 June 1937, Page 2

Car Skids Into Pole

ACCIDENT AT GREENMEADOW* From Our Own CorresDondentNAPIER, June 24. A car and a telegraph pole wet damaged when a car driven by a Ni pier resident, Mr Rodney Arber, skic ded off the road at Greenmeadows ye» terday and collided with the post. Th surface of the road was slippery at th< time, and when the vehicle went into a skid Mr Arber was unable to stop ii until it hit the pole. The radiator of the car was slightly damaged. The telegraph pole also was damaged, and some wires wcro broken. The driver escaped unhurt. MOTOR SMASH AT AWATOTO MAN INJURED BY FLYING GLASS From Our Own CorreNpondent. NAPIER, June 24. a passenger in a motor vehicle was injured by flying-glass in a head-on vol* lision on the main Napier-llastings road at Awatoto at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Extensive damage was done to both the vehicles involved in tho smash. A car driven by Mr James Alexander Wilson, Napier, was piuceoding to Hastings, when it met a line of cars. One of them, driven by a Mr Herrick, pulled out in an attempt to pass, and met the approaching vehicle almost head-on. A brother of Mr Wilson, Mr Robert H. Wilson, who w’as a ger in the front seat, was inju.ed by glass from the windshield, but was able to go homo after attention.