FATAL MOTOR SMASH

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 4

FATAL MOTOR SMASH

A TYRE BURSTS DRIVES KILLED: TWO PASSEN# GERS INJURED. Press Association. PALMERSTON N., December 22. A serious motor car accident hnp-« pound on the Rangitikei lino at 4.30 this afternoon, resulting in the death of David Musgrove, a taxi driver and a well-known athlete. Ho was driv-v vng four passengers towards Palmer-* slou when a tyre burst and the can turned over, killing Musgrove in-4 stantly. Another occupant, whoso name waa at first given as John Sanquist, hub cannot bo identified with certainty* was seriously injured and was remov-* ed to a private hospital, where ho uowi lies in a precarious condition ; Andrew! McLuckio sustained a broken arm* wtiile the other two occupants escaped injury. ACCIDENT IN DULLER GORGE, CAR RUNS AWAY DOWN HILL. WESTPORT, December 22. A motor-car accident occurred on th« Duller Gorge road to-day, whereby Mr# Tyers, wife of Mr Tyers, of Christchurch, and formerly of tho Income, Tax Department, fractured a leg, an eight-year-old lad named Liddy fractured a thigh, and a man named Bowman got severely bruised. Several others were in tho car, which ran away just as the drivers had changed at tho top of Burley’s Hill, and went over an embankment. The other occupants, however, escaped with slight injuries, Tho car was badly damaged. At the hospital to-night Mrs Tyer’S leg was amputated above the ankle.