MOTOR ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 6

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

TWO MEN KILLED

TRAVELLER SERIOUSLY HURT. Per Press Association. NELSON, September 21. Mr Erio Sinclair, of Tnhunanui, Nelson, representative of Hayman and Co., Wellington; Mr George Tilley, Nelson, representative of Thompson Bros., Wellington- and Mr Campbell were returning to Nelson from Murchison on Saturday evening during heavy rain and snow, when the car went over a bank near Hope Junction, in the Upper Buller Valley. Mr Sinclair was seriously injured, but the others escaped with bruises. The accident oci curred at a lonely spot, and it was some time before assistance was obtained. One man stayed with Mr Sinclair, while the other had to walk three miles for assistance. The Nelson. Hospital was communicated with at midnight, and an ambulance with two men and nurse immediately set out, and returned at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, after a long journey made dangerous by the weather. Mr Sinclair is suffering from grave spinal injuries. CYCLIST’S SKULL FRACTURED ASHBURTON, September 21. A fatal motor-cycle accident accurred on the Main South road on Saturday evening. Martin William Laffey (22), a single man, received a fractured skull. He was travelling from the north to Ashburton, and half a mile on the Ashburton side of Dromore his cycle apparently skidded and threw him. No one witnessed the accident. Two young men found him lying on the road, and he was dead before a doctor arrived. FATALITY AT KAIAPOI CHRISTCHURCH, September 21. F. J. Stewart (30). a single man, living in River road, Christchurch, was killed last evening at Perrin’s Ford, Kaiapoi, through a car in which he was a passenger overturning. At the inauest a verdict of accidental death was returned. The coroner recojnmended that a white fence should he erected at the corner to warn motorists at night that it is dangerous.