SERIOUS TRAP COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15124, 15 October 1912, Page 8

SERIOUS TRAP COLLISION.

SEVERAL PEOPLE iNjfffi fc MAN LOSES AN EYp, ,' 'I I [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN COfcLESPO};,) : 1 Te Aroha, W ;/| A semes of collisions took pW „' ! '. 1 To Aroha traffic bridge on Satm&T **" 1 ing about eight o'clock. Jf § Earle, of Mangaiti, was coining £,?■ \ bridge with a horse and spring cartful Aroha, whilo Mr. Lockyer, of Hun' - 1 hi« young daughter in" one «$„ I Meads, of Te Aroha WesV&Sl I were going homewards. Mr. Meads • i driving ahead of the others." It that Lockyer's trap collided withgj^v : | cart, with the result that the fonn« B '* I completely wrecked and the oocu ** 1 thrown heavily to the ground. § horse thereupon bolted across the hi** i and Mead, it is understood, atfomMo ; i to stop it. On his doing so a se«»d if 1 lision occurred. > ' I Miss Wagstaff occupied a seat i n 1 gig and, anticipating a collision;"^.l voured to leave the vehicle. The'foia % 1 the impictj however, threw hcrunaertt 1 horse's feet and she suffered • * I juries;. . . 4 * 1 Mead was struck in the face either i I one of the shafts or a. »winseisl § Lockyer's vehicle and rendered ifil I scious. Medical aid was at hand 'a&ht* 1 sufferer was conveyed to » private hW? § when his injuries were found to bvk, 1 serious, his right eye having moved. The patient was 1 Sunday morning, and is still more or "Z I delirious. - ; S;.f|