COLLISION WITH POLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20236, 22 April 1929, Page 10

COLLISION WITH POLE.

TWO CYCLISTS INJURED.

COMPANION'S LUCKY ESCAPE.

MACHINE BADLY DAMAGED.

[Br TELEGRAFH.—(DWN CORRESPONDENT.! PUKEKOHE. Sunday.

Two youths were seriously injured and another was hurled about 6yds., but escaped injury, when a motor-cycle and side-car on which the three were riding crashed into a power-line pole on the Pukekohc-Buckland Road at about three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The names of the injured are:—

Alan Ross, of Paerata. Broken arm, injury to one leg and extensive bruises.

Kenneth Evans, of Pukekohe, injuries to both eyes and deep cut on the head. Both the injured youths wero admitted to the Shirley private hospital, Pukekohe, and Ross was later sent to the Auckland Hospital for an X-ray examination. Evans remains at the Shirley hospital. The cycle was driven by Ross, with Evans in the side-car, and the third youth, Thomas Hogan, of Pukekohe, was on the carrier.

The accident occurred about a mile and a-half from Pukekohe at a turn in the road at the foot of Deed's Hill. The machine careered across the water-table and collided with the post. The cycle was badly damaged. Fortunately a taxicab arrived soon after the accident, and took the injured men to the hospital. Tho party was going to a football match at Tuakau when the accident occurred. CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE. RIDER'S LEG FRACTURED. As the result of a collision between a motor-car and a motor-cycle at the corner of Onslow Road and The Drive, Epsom, on Saturday afternoon, Thornton Pascoe, aged 19 years, of Fairfax Road, Epsom, sustaiijed a fracture of a leg. Pascoe was riding on a pillion seat when the accident occurred. He was removed to tho Auckland Hospital, where his condition was stated last evening to be not serious.