DEATH IN COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 10

DEATH IN COLLISION.

SERVICE CAR AND GIG.

WOMAN PASSENGER KILLED. SHOCKING INJURIES SUSTAINED. STRUCK BY SHAFT OF VEHICLE. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.J PUKEKOHE. Thursday Fatal injuries were sustained by a passenger in a service car, Mrs. Alice Rosetta Robertson, aged about 40 years, wife of Mr. T. M. Robertson, of Aka Aka, as a result of a collision between the servico car and a gig on tho main road at Paorata shortly after six o'clock this evening. The car, which was owned and driven by Mr. F. Alexander, of Waiulqi, was proceeding from Auckland to Pukokohe, en route to Waiuku, and the gig, driven by Mr. W. E. Lubbock, of Paerata, was travelling in the opposite direction. When near the car tho horso in the gig shied and the two vehicles collided.

Tho shafts of the gig strupk the car at tho level of the seats, and Mrs. Robertson, who was in tl.e front seat, received the full force of tho impact, one shaft penetrating her chest. She was taken into a nearby house but died within a few minutes

Thero was one other passenger in the car, but both he and the driver escaped injury. Mr. Lubbock was thrown from tho gig but was unhurt. The body-work of tho car was twisted out of shape, and the seat on which Mrs. Robertson was sitting was forced back soveral inches. Both shafts of tho gig were broken, but tho horse escaped practically uninjured.