MOTOR COLLISION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 11

MOTOR COLLISION.

A PASSENGER INJURED. (Pee Unit: j Peebs Association.) CAMBRIDGE*, December 23. About 7.30 last night a serious motor collision occurred between Holden’s motor service car, of Rotorua, and Alfred Smith’s Sun car. Both vehicles were on the Hamilton-Rotorua service, and the accident happened at a sharp bend on the road at the Cambridge Borough boundary. James K. Mooney, an employee of the Forestry Department at Wairoa, who was seated in the roar seat of Holden’s car, suffered two broken ribs, through the broken hood support striking him. All the other passengers escaped without injury, though they were badly shocked. Both vehicles met in a eide-on collision. The whole of the right sides of both ears were badly dented, while the top gear of Holden’s car was carried away. The driver of Smith’s car attempted to swerve off the road, but he was too late to avoid a collision, and had a miraculous escape from crashing into a telegraph post, finally colliding with a fence. Both ears were travelling at a smart speed at the time, and it is remarkable that they did not capsize. After the collision they were able to drive away under their own power.

Supermarine-Napier So. which won the Schneider Gup for Great Britain with an average speed exceeding 280 miles an hour, and occasionally reaching 300 miles (says the Daily News), is not only_ the fastest aeroplane ever built, but the fastest thing on earth. Such a speed as this confounds the imagination. The sound of the aeroplane’s passing is described as like the shriek of a heavy shell. It makes even the flight of a flock of birds in migration resemble by comparison a funeral procession.