MOTORING TRAGEDIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20901, 16 December 1929, Page 12

MOTORING TRAGEDIES.

ONE MAN KILLED OUTRIGHT. THREE OTHERS INJURED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 14. As the result of a lorry overturning ou the Waipu road last night, one man was killed and three others were injured. The victims of the accident were as follows: Fred Edwards, aged 23, postal employee at Waipu, killed. John Gatlin, aged 22, quarryman, of Waipu, injury to left arm and shoulder, lacerated wound in forehead and ear. Sydney Boggs, aged 23, postal employee at Waipu, left ribs fractured and injury to left arm. Nathan Hart, aged 23, carrier, of Waipu, injured head. The party left Waipu shortly before 11 p.m. in Hart’s motor truck for Ruakaka. They had gone a mile and aquarter, and were near a corner, when the truck swerved across the road and crashed into a barrel of bitumen. The road at this point is 17 feet wide, and the barrel was lying several feet from the edge. _ After striking the barrel the lorry capsized against a telegraph pole, which tore the hood off the driver’s seat, upon which all four men were seated. It is surmised that Edwards was crushed against the pole, for the base of his skull was fractured. . Hart and Boggs, the least severely injured of the party, dragged their companions from the wreckage, and Hart Summoned tbe police. Constable Maieey arrived with a doctor, to find Catlin bleeding desperately from a cut artery in hia head. This was attended to, and the three men were despatched in a taxi to the Whangarei Hospital, where they were admitted at 1,20 a.m. They were not gravely hurt, and the condition of all three was reported as satisfactory today. Catlin underwent an operation this morning. MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH. SEVERE COLLISION WITH CAE. (Per United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, December 15. At 3.30 a.m. to-day the Free Ambulance was summoned to the corner of YoVt and Coutts streets, Kilbirnie. Mr Ron M'Kenzie, of Karori, a well-known dirt track rider, while riding his motor cycle, had collided with a motor car. M’Kenzie, who had caught the car broadside on,_ was very severely injured, and was admitted to the hospital, suffering from severe head injuries, concussion, and shock. His condition gradually grew worse, and lie passed away at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The impact must have been particularly severe, as M'Kenzie’a machine was damaged beyond repair, and numerous parts were strewn along the street. M’Kenzie, who, when the accident occurred, was ;n his racing apparel, had been competing at the Kilbirnie Stadium earlier in the evening, COLLISION WITH EXPRESS. MOTORIST KILLED INSTANTLY. (Peb United Press Association.) HAMILTON, December 15. . A car driven by Arthur Walter Martin, a labourer, of Otorohanga, collided with the north-bound limited at Otorohanga last night. Martin was killed iristantly, and the car was smashed. There were no other occupants. Martin, who was 28 years of age, leaves a wife and three children.