SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 10

SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH.

BUS AND LORRY COLLIDE. SEVERAL FREEZING WORKERS INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) MASTERTON. February 18. A serious motor' accident happened in Queen street shortly after 7 o’clock this morning, when a Black and White delivery van from Wellington collided with Kenneth Aplin’s motor lorry, which was conveying freezing works’ employees to Waingawa. Aplin’s lorry had proceeded as far as the convent when the Black and White bus approached from the south. There was no obstruction on the road other than a milk cart, which was standing in close to the kerb. The right hub of the cap of the Black and White bus struck the lorry on the step, the Wellington bus turning over. The hood portion of the lorry was badly smashed, and many of the occupants were injured. Frank Shackleton’s skull was fractured; Frank Marsh received injuries to his shoulder; William Hugh Long, injuries to his spine; Hugh Carswell, cuts and bruises. They wore all removed to the hospital. Shackleton’s condition is serious.^ Charles M‘Alister and Harry Simpson received minor injuries. Louis Framayne, driver of the Wellington bus, received slight injuries to his ribs, but was all right after being bandaged. Mrs M. Y. Bates, of the Upper Hutt. who was travelling in the bus to Masterton, received minor cuts on the head and leg from the flying glass of the windscreen. Work has been suspended for the day at the Wainkawa works, the butchers ro maining in town, and making anxious inquiries about their comrades in hospital. ONE MAN SUCCUMBS. i*Peb United Press Association.) MASTERTON. February 19. Shackleton, one of the men injured in the motor collision yesterday morning, died in the Masterton Hospital at 8.45 last night. An inquest will be held to-morrow. The other three are progressing and are reported to be out of danger.