FOUR INJURED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22469, 13 July 1936, Page 8

FOUR INJURED

MIDNIGHT COLLISION CAR STRIKES PIE-CART POLICE MAKE AN ARREST [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] CHRIBTCIIURCH, Sunday Four men were injured when a motorcar ran into a pie-cart near the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets at 12.20 this morning. The most serious injuries wero suffered by Mr. I?. T. Fraser, of 15 Vickery Street, Sockburn, who had a compound fracture of the left leg and was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital. Mr. F. Quartly, of Templeton, received injuries to the face and head, and was treated as an out-patient at the hospital. Mr. Jeffrey Vivian Coira, of St. Asaph Street, an attendant at the cart, suffered injuries to the right arm, and Mr. George Rowland Hill, of 74 Queen Street, another attendant, was scalded on the left arm by the overturning of a coffee urn. Mr. Coira was treated as an out-patient at the hospital, and Mr. Hill was attended by the St. John Ambulance. The pie-cart was extensively damaged, being pushed on to the footpath by the oar, which was travelling in a westerly direction along Armagh Street. The cart stands alongside Victoria Square, on the right-hand side of the road from the direction in which the car was travelling. There were about a dozen persons at the cart at the time, and a number of bystanders and bicycles about, so the accident caused a considerable commotion. The driver of the car was arrested. ACCIDENT NEAR POKENO TWO MOTOR-CARS INVOLVED [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Sunday Of 11 persons who were concerned in a collision between two motor-cars on the Great South Road, about two miles north of Pokeno shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon, only one was injured. The others escaped with a shaking. A boy aged four years had an arm broken. In one of the cars Mr. R. R. G. Crocomb was returning from Auckland with his wife and four children to his home at Hoe-o-Tainui, near Morrinsvillo. It was one of his sons who had Lis arm broken. After being attended to bv a doctor at Tuakau he was taken home. The other car was being driven toward Auckland by Miss C. B. Moore, of Cambridge, who had with her four women companions. Miss Moore's car had to be towed to a garage, but Mr. Crocomb was able to drive on.