MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20869, 11 May 1931, Page 10

MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

FOUR PEOPLE INJURED.

COLLISION AT PAPAKURA.

THREE VICTIMS IN , HOSPITAL

Four people, including three members of one family, were injured as a result of a collision between their car and another at the intersection of the Great South Road and Beach Road, Papakuru, about 12.30 p.m. yesterday. The injured people are Mrs. Hilda Sarah Wilson, aged 45, her daughter, Miss Phyllis Mary Wilson, aged 20, and her son, Mr. llobert Ernest Wilson, aged 21, all of Taupiri, and Mr. T. Bredin, of Papakura. Mrs. Wilson and her son and daughter were conveyed to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance, and were found to be suffering from concussion. Mr. Bredin received a minor injury to one shoulder and was treated locally. A Morris Minor saloon car driven by Mr. Wilson was travelling along tho Great South Road toward Auckland, and a Morris-Cowley touring car, driven by Mrs. Elsie Bredin, a visitor from Taranaki, which was going south, turned to the right to enter Beach Road. The two cars met with considerable force at the intersection, and the saloon car carried the touring model across the footpath, down a slight bank and into a wire fence. Both cars were damaged extensively, the front of the closed model being buckled. A mudguard and one runningboard were torn off the other.

When the collision occurred, Miss Wilson, who was sitting beside her brother in tho front seat, was thrown violently forward against tho glass of tho windscreen, which fortunately did not splinter. Tho car swerved sharply, but did not capsize, although tho occupants were tossed about. Mr. Bredin was the only one injured of tho five passengers in tho car driven by Mrs. Bredin. '

Mrs. Wilson and her son were first taken to the residence of the Rev. J. 11. Bredin, and attended by Dr. G. W. Lock, of Papakura. Miss Wilson was attcmled at the roadside, it being considered inadvisable to niovo her until the arrival of the ambulance. At the time of the accident, the Wilsons were on their way to Auckland to attend the funeral of a relative.

A St. John ambulance on being summoned made a particularly smart trip, covering the return journey of about 38 miles in just over an hour. The condition of the three patients in the hospital was reported to be not serious last evening.

LITTLE BOY INJUEED.

CARS COLLIDE AT PAPAKURA. A collision occurred botween a motorcar driven by Mr. C. F. McGiechie, of liotorua, and another driven by Mr. L. Rigg, of Ardmore, on the overhead bridge near the northern end of the Papakura railway station at about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. A small boy, Lindsey Burnside, aged about six years, who was in Mr. Rigg's car, received severe cuts on the head and face, and was admitted to a private hospital in Papakura. The other occupants of the cars were uninjured. Air. Rigg's car had the windshield broken and the radiator and mudguards damaged extensively.

COLLISION WITH A COW. MOTOR-CYCLISTS INJURED. Two riders on a motor-cycle, Jothroe Horace Smith, aged 29, single, and lan McDonald Matheson, aged 23, single, both farm hands employed at Waimauku, were injured when the machine collided with a cow on the Great North Road near Glen Eden about 8 p.m. yesterday. The cycle, driven by Mr. Smith, with Mr. Matheson on the pillion-seat, was travelling toward Auckland, and several cows were encountered on the steep hill near Glen Edpu. Both men were thrown from the machine when the collision occurred and were found to be suffering from slight concussion. They were admitted to the Auckland Hospital.

INJURIES TO CHILD. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. A small bov, Ray Harding, aged sixyears, of Robert's Avenue, Belmont, received a fracture of one thigh and a dislocated kneo through being knocked down by a motor-car near the Belmont school on Friday afternoon. After receiving medical attention, he was admitted to the hospital.

TWO MOTOR-CYCLISTS HURT.

COLLISION WITH A LORRY. [by telegraph.—-own correspondent.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Sunday. Two motor-cyclists received severe injuries when a motor-cycle collided with a lorry at Normanby on Friday evening. The men, Messrs. F. 11. Castles and W. 11. Pratt, both of Kaponga, were thrown from the cycle to tlie footpath. Mr. Pratt's left leg was badly fractured, and he is suffering from concussion. Mr. Castles is suffering from concussion, and ho also received a painful injury to the back. Both are in Ilawera Hospital.

COLLISION WITH BICYCLE. WOMAN lUDER INJURED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] OPOTIKI, Saturday. A collision between a motor-car driverr by Mr. Lan Forbes and a bicycle ridden by Miss Sydenham, occurred last night. Miss Sydenham was dragged for some dista ice, receiving severe bruises and cuts. Medical attention was necessary, but her condition is not serious. LORRY'S MISHAP ON BRIDGE. LOAD OF GIRDERS UPSET. [from our own correspondent.] TAUPIRI, Saturday. An accident occurred on the Mangawara Bridge at Taupiri Into on Friday evening, when a lorry drawing a trailer struck tho railing of tho bridge when negotiating the sharp approach to the bridge. The force of the impact throw tho trailer completely over on to tho top of its load of three iron girders. The weight of tho girders, each about two and a-ha If tons, and measuring 40ft. in length, made it impossible to remove them at, once. They were therefore jacked to tho side of the narrow bridge and vere removed to-day by a crane. Traffic was not delayed for any great length of time. The bridge is one of tho worst between Auckland and Hamilton, and has recently been the sceno of several accidents.