SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 March 1918, Page 4

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT

UNFORTUNATE END TO A HOLIDAY.

After a molth's holiday motor tour through the heart of the (North Island as far as Rotorua, Messrs Pudsey (watchman at the Petone Woollen Mills) and Crawford (poultry-farmer, Lower Hntt), with their respective wives and three children (two girls and! a boy), ariet with a serious accident on the llimutaka between 3 and 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, -says the Post. Ifear the top of the Rimutaka, Mr Crawford,- who was driving, essayed to pass "a big ■ motor lorry which had drawn up at.the hillside. Unfortunately, the space was not' sufficient for the passenger car, and it went over the hill ,which at" that point is very steep. Six Pudsey was. the only absentee. He had left the car & few moments previously to get a drink of water. As "the car went over- one-of the girls jumped out, and escapetf unhurt. Mr Crawford also jumped, and was comparatively uninjured. The other four (Mrs Pudsey and Mrs Crawford and the two children) went with the car, which after a dreadful fall of about thirty-five yards, struck a log and "turned completely over, being smashed to pieces. Mrs Crawford, "and the children were thrown out during the car's headlong flight.- Mrs Pudsey kept her seat until the car stopped, about fifty yards from the brow of the Bill, when she was thrown, out*, with great- violence. _She was unconscious when. picked up> and subsequently it was found that she had sustained serious injuries to one of her shoulders, besides minor bruises and shock. One of the girls had received serious injuries to a leg, there being a gaping wound from .the knee to the ankle. Mrs Crawford sustained; a broken wrist, besides minor injuries, and the boy was badly bruised about the head and other parts of the body. The sufferers .were brought to the top of the hill by rescue parties, and taken to Tne Greytown Hospital, where they are undergoing treatment.

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