MOTOR CYCLE SKIDS
TWO MEN INJURED,
ONE FATALLY.
CARTERTON, This Day. A fatal accident occurred on the Cross Creek-Foatherstoh Road on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Three men, Reg Hayloek (train examiner), William Monteith (engine driver) and N. Doohan (labourer), all young men employed by the Railways Department at Cross Creek, wore returning from Peatherston on Hayloek’s motor cycle and side ear. Hayloek was driving, Monteith in the side ear and Doohan riding pillion. Proceeding along the road they met a motor lorry and when passing it, loose metal caused a skid, and the cycle turned into the lorry. Hayloek and Doohan were knocked off, the former falling between the cycle and the side car. It is thought that both knocked their heads on the lorry. They were picked up and taken to the Greytown Hospital where Hayloek died at 3.30 o’clock yesterday. Doohan’s condition is still considered serious. Monteith escaped ‘injury. An inquest opens today.—Prss Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 19 September 1927, Page 6
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