MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 4

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

DEATH FOLLOWS COLLISION

(By .Telegraph—Press Association)

HAMILTON, This Day. A motor cycle and sidecar travelling toward Hamilton collided with, a car driven by A. H. Baldwin, miner, of Huntly. John Langford Gavey (26), a salesman of Franktoii, was killed outright, and George Kasoof (25), of Huntly, was admitted to the hospital suffering fjom concussion. / Mrs Ann Stewart, a passenger in the car, suffered shock and slight concussion. ■ Deceased was married, with one child.

A BOY KILLED DUNEDIN, This Day. Through a lorry getting out of con-, trol and capsizing', Gordon Albert Craik (12) was killed through a tyre bursting. A car being driven by Harry Burns along Lower Portobello road on Saturday afternoon, ran over a bank, and caught fire. A passenger was'thrown clear and escaped .with slight bruises, but Burns was severely burned about the legs and received numerous bruises.

'BUS CRASHES INTO TRAIN HAMILTON, This Day. A narrow escape was experienced by the occupants of a 'bus which was travelling from Hamilton to Te Aroha on Saturday night at about 7 o'clock. Tho 'bus crashed into a train from Cambridge at Newstead. The driver applied his brakes instantly' with the result that the 'bus slewed' round into a ditch without capsizing. D. Wright, of Hamilton, a passenger, was slightly injured in the shoulder, and one woman suffered shock. The damage was confined to a wrecked radiator and smashed windscreen.