MOTOR AND CYCLE COLLIDE.
I DOMINION, ROAD ACCIDENT. CYCLIST'S LEG FRACTURED. —■- : ; ' A collision between a motor-car and motor-cycle .,■ occurred in Dominion , Road last evening- . -/ i Shortly after 5 p.m., Mr. Ernest Watson, aged 24- residing at Hillside Cres- J cent, Mount -Eden, was proceeding along Dominion 'Road on a; motor-cycle, when 8' motor-car, in turning from Dominion Road into Balmoral Road, collided with him. It is stated that his motor-cycle - 'was. dragged -about two car lengths along Balmoral Road. Mr. Watson sustained '■;-.'... a compound fracture of the right leg. "- By a curious coincidence in surnames : -, another patient admitted to the hospital yesterday was' Mr. Robert..Watson, ;a ' married man, 58 years of age, who re* sides at Northcote.; He . ia,Waged . ; the Tramway Dopnrtment; on-the ureiu , t South Road/apd ope of the ft*j" backed i into him, -inflicting a gash u. £ "»»* • thigh.. His injury 13 nqt.-tegwjfc- .^|-,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 9
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144MOTOR AND CYCLE COLLIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 9
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