MOTOR CAPSIZES NEAR WAITARA
TWO PEOPLE SERIOUSLY HURT WELLINGTON LADY FRACTURES BASE OP HER SKULL. PRESS ASSOCIATION. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 12. A motor-ear driven by Mr A. H. Honnor, of New Plymouth, a coachbuilder, turned turtle tbis afternoon at the foot of Big Jim’s lull, a steep part of a country road near Waitara. Some of the occupants were seriously injured. With Mr Honnor were Mrs Honnor and a little son, Mrs T. W. Fisher, info of. Mr Fisher, Under-Secretary of Native Affairs, Wellington, Miss Fisher and Miss Butler (Mrs Honnor’s sister). The account of an eye-witness states that an explosion occurred as though the tyre tube had burst. The car skidded, and the back wheel collapsed, the car capsizing. Mrs Fisher sustained a fracture of the base of the skull, and Mr Honnor was also seriously hurt, being rendered unconscious* Miss Fisher and the hoy were unhurt, and Miss Butler was only slightly injured. At 11 o’clock this evening there was no change in the condition. of the two patients.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7335, 13 January 1911, Page 1
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171MOTOR CAPSIZES NEAR WAITARA New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7335, 13 January 1911, Page 1
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