SERIOUS COLLISION.
MOTOR-CYCLE AND CAR. ESCAPE OF CANON JAMES. [by telegraph.— phess association.] WELLINGTON, Monday. Serious injury was suffered by two riders of a motor-cycle which came into collision with a motor-car driven by Canon Percival James, vicar of St. Paul's, on the Hutt Road this afternoon.
Those injured are Miss Irene Higgins, of Tasman Street, reader in the Government printing office, who received a severe fracture at the base of the skull and abrasions, and Sir. John David Buckley, of Tinakori Road, a railway fireman, who received serious head injuries and a fracture of the right foot. The motor-cycle, which was driven by Mr. Buckley, was coming toward the city from the Hutt, and the motor-car was going from Wellington. The vehicles were at Kaiwarra when the accident occurred.
Both Mr. Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up. Cnnon James, the driver of tho car, was unhurt.
The two injured were removed to the hospital and late to-night neither had regained consciousness.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20841, 7 April 1931, Page 8
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