CAR CAPSIZES

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 8

CAR CAPSIZES

TWO MEN IN HOSPITAL. NOSE INTO BANK. STEEPING GEAR- FAILS. As the result of the steering gear failing, an accident occurred on the Otaika Road last evening, in consequence of which two young men are in the Whangarei District Hospital. They are:— Mr Wallace Rowlands, severe scalp wounds. He was operated on this morning. Mr Edward Pemberton, concussion. The driver, Mr Arthur Judd, who w; s the only other occupant, had a ■hand injured, but did not go to hos pital. It appears that the three young men, who all work at Portland, bor rowed a car from Mr W. Harris, and drove to a dance at Otaika. After some time there, Mr Judd said that ho would like to come in and see hia parents, who reside in Oranga Road, Whangarei. The others accompanied him, and the car had proceeded as far as Fyfield’s Hill when the accident occurred. The steering gear failed and the car took its own course.

There is a steep, sloping cutting on the left-hand side of the road, and the left wheel of the car went up this. The whole body balanced for a moment, and then capsized, turning over two or three times. The car rested with its nose jammed into the bank and the back wheels on the road.

Mr Rowlands was bleeding profusely and was taken into Whangarei on the back of a motor cycle, the first arrival after the mishap. Mr Pemberton was brought to hospital in a car returning from a political meeting at Ruakaka.