MOTOR-CYCLISTS HURT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 12

MOTOR-CYCLISTS HURT

. FATHER AND SON COLLISION AT PANMURE A young man and his father were injured when the motor-cycle on which they were riding was involved in a collision with a motor-car on the Howick highway between the Panmure township ond t'be Tamaki Bridge shortly after eight o'clock last night. Both men were admitted to the Auckland Hospital. At a late hour last night the rider of the cycle, Mr. Frank Carlton Heald, a i 23, of 15 Wynyard Road, Mount Luen, was in a fairly serious condition. Ho has a compound fracture of the right leg. His father, Mr. George Hoald, aged 59, commercial. traveller, of the same address, hud one arm broken and suffered from shock. His condition later was not serious. The motor-cycle on which the two men were riding was travelling toward Howick, while the motor-car, driven by Mr. P. Maxwell, of Ascot Avenue, Remuera ; was proceeding in the opposite direction. The crash when the two vehicles met brought the occupants of houses in the vicinity to the scene without delay, and they found Mr. Heald, jun., pinned beneath the cycle. A St. Johu ambulance was summoned and both men wore taken to hospital.