MOTOR CYCLING MISHAP

Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 2

MOTOR CYCLING MISHAP

TWO PEOPLE INJURED

CLERGYMAN ESCAPES,

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

Serious injury was suffered by two riders of a motor cycle which came into collision with a motor-ear driven by Canon Percival James, Vicar of St. Paul’s on the Hutt Road yesterday afternoon.

Those injured are Miss Irene Higgins, of Tasman Street, reader in the Government Printing Office, who received a severe fracture at the base- of the skull and abrasions, and Mr John David Buckley, of Tinakori Road, a railway fireman, who received serious head injuries and fracture of the right foot.

The motor cycle, which was' driven by Mr Buckley, was coming towards the city from 'the- Hutt, and the motor ■car was going from Wellington. The vehicles were at Kaiwarra when the accident -occurred.

Both Mr Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up. Canon James, the driver of the car, was unhurt.

The two injured were removed to the hospital and late last night neither had regained consciousness.