MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19963, 4 June 1928, Page 8

MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

FATALITY NEAR RAGLAN. CAR OVERTURNS INTO CREEK. DRIVER PINNED UNDER WATER. f . £BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. J HAMILTON, Sunday. A fatal motor accident occurred at Te Mata, Raglan, yesterday, when a single man, Henrf Gladstone Pain, aged 28, a farmer, living at Te Mata, lost his life through drowning. Mr. Pain was being taught to drive a five-seater motor-car by his brother, Mr. George Pain, a Te Mata farmer. The vehicle was being driven by deceased along the Te Mata Road, and when within a mile of the Te Mata post office the car left the road and plunged over a declivity into a small stream. The vehicle overturned and Mr. Henry Pain was pinned beneath it. Mr. Geoigc Pain was unable to lift the vehicle and extricate his brother, who was found to be drowned when help arrived. Mr. Pain's two young sisters and another girl were passengers in the car, but except for a shaking, they escaped injury. The party was coming into the Waikato ! Winter Show when the accident occurred At an inquest held before Mr. T. Parker, acting-coroner, evidence was given that just prior to the accident deceased took the wheel from his brother. He had never driven a car before, and the vehicle had proceeded only two chains when it left the road and overturned, falling into the stream. The five occupants were pinned under the car in the water, but four of them were able to extricate themselves. They were unable to move deceased, and when help arrived he was dead. A verdict of accidental death, with no blame attachable to anyone, was returned. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. DEATH OF MOTOR-CYCLIST. SEQUEL TO A COLLISION. As the result of severe head injuries received in an accident, the death of Mr. C. R_ Browne occurred in the Auckland Hospital at 9.30 on Saturday morning. Deceased, who was single, aged 24, resided at 30, Inkerman Street, Onehunga. Mr. Browne was injured in a collision between a motor-cycle he was riding and a motor-car in Anzac Avenue late on Friday evening. He was later admitted to the hospital in a serious condition.

SERVICE CAR OVERTURNS. CAPSIZE: AT CROSSING, PASSENGERS' LUCKY ESCAPE. When turning to cross the railway line near Hopuhopu military camp on the Great South Road, between Huntly and Taupiri, on Friday evening, a 15-seater service car. owned by Mr. W. E. Gray, of Hamilton, overturned. There were 15 passengers in the vehicle, ! all of whom escaped injury except Mr. S. j Baker, of Cambridge. Mr. Baker received a cut on the side o£ his head and was taken to his home in Cambridge. The driver of the car, Mr. A. J., Robertson, almost missed the sharp turn on account of a dense fog, and the vehicle skidded on the loose shingle at the side of the road. The chassis was severely damaged by the capsize, and two windows were broken by passengers in their efforts to extricate themselves. The passengers, who were bound, for Auckland from New Plymouth and Hamilton, were later picked nip by another car. CAES IN COLLISION. CHILD HURT BY GLASS. [BV TELEGRAPH.-—OWN CORRESPONDENT. J PUKEKOHE, Sunday. A collision between two cars occurred on the main Pukekohe-Drury Road, near the Karaka school, about seven o'clock this evening. One car was driven by Mr. B. Attewell, of Pukekohe, who was going toward Auckland, and the other car, driven by Mr. F. Rider, of Tuakati, was proceeding in the opposite direction. The rear wheel of Mr. Attewell's car 'was broken and the front axle bent, while the front wheel of Mr. Rider's car was wrenched off and the mudguard buckled. With Mr. Rider were Mrs. Rider, Mr. and Mrs. Cruickshank,, and two of the latter's children. One child, aged seven years, sustained a cut from flying glass, but otherwise the Occupants of the cars escaped injury. The child's injury, which is not regarded as serious, was attended to by Dr. Begg, of Pukekohe. KNOCKED DOWN BY VAN. CHILD'S LEG FRACTURED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Sunday. A fracture of the left leg and a slight injury to the head were sustained by Mary Johnson, aged eight years, daughter of Mr. Arthur Johnson, of Pukemiro Junction, who was knocked down by a butcher's van, driven by Mr. J. W. Lyons, in Victoria Street, Hamilton, yesterday. The accident occurred at midday, when there was a great deal of congestion in the street. The little girl was one of a family of four children, whose mother was endeavouring to pilot, them across the street. The injured child was taken to the Waikato Hospital. Her condition is satisfactory.