FOUR WOMEN INJURED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 January 1944, Page 4

FOUR WOMEN INJURED

CAR CRASHES INTO GULLY Auckland, Jan. 9. Four women were admitted to the Auckland Hospital this afternoon as a result of injuries they received when a car in which they were travelling left the road at Piha Hill, leading down to the beach, and crashed 50 feet down a steep hillside into a gully. Before leaving the road the car struck an American serviceman who was standing on the side of the road, and he was taken to an American hospital. The driver of the car. Mr J. Arthur. Mt. Eden, and two other women passengers escaped serious injury and were not admitted to hospital. The persons in hospital are: Mrs Olive Florence Wolfe, aged 45, of Mt. Eden, lacerations to the scalp, concussion and injuries to back and leg: Miss Audrey Leona Beague, aged 23. of Helensville. concussion, abrasions and a possible fractured nose: Miss Kathleen Gertrude Shadlock, aged 24. of Belmont, Wellington, concussions, abrasions, possible fracture ol' ribs and possible internal injuries, and her sister. Miss Pauline Mildred Shadlock, aged 18. of the same address, concussion and shock. The car was going down the hill toward the Piha beach at noon when it struck an American serviceman who was standing on the roadside repairing the punctured tyre of a vehicle. Soon after he was struck the car appeared to become out of control. It overturned on its way down the hillside and came to rest on its wheels beside a creek. A party of American servicemen travelling behind the car rushed down the hillside and carried the oc cupants up to the road, where they performed first aid till the arrival of a doctor.—P.A.