RETURNING FROM RACES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 1449, 3 October 1910, Page 4

RETURNING FROM RACES.

MOTOR AND TRAP COLLIDE. i [BY TELEGRAPH. —-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] i Palmerston - North, Sunday. • jj When Messrs. Goring, Johnston, Baldwin,_ u / '■ Onnond and Cooper were returning front i g the Wanganui races yesterday to Palmer-i 4 ston in Mr. Johnston's car, driven by his' chauffeur Barling, a horse 6hied in front 1 $ of them as they were approaching Bulls., 3 Barling swung off to avoid it, but the % horse and trap came right on across the | road in front of the car, which -was run: J over a ditch and up against a fence to try.; {| and avoid a collision. The horse came right on top of the car,! | the shafts of the trap going through the! glass screen. Barling was knocked in- | sensible and is suffering from concussion jf of the brain, but has recovered conscious-. iJ§ ness since he was carried into Bulls. , : "£ Beyond the breaking of shafts, no dam-.. : | age was done to the vehicle or horse, |§ which was driven by an employee of Mr. ?'i?B J. G. Wilson. The driver states that* *\f£ when his horse shied, one side of his rein Jm broke, and his pulling on the other, he ai supposed, pulled the horse across. The steering wheel of the car and the front . ||| wheels were damaged, but the occupants other than Barling miraculously escaped.; V? The shock of the collision stopped the en« $ gine. ;|i