SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 8

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

COLLISION ON PORTOBELLO' , ROAD. MOTOR CYCUSTS SEVERELY INJURED. A serious motor collision, • ■which ■ resulted in a. girl named Eileen Cooper and a young man, Morris West, being badly .injured, occurred on the Portobello road early last evening. So severe were the injuries received by the two, victims of the crash that no information could be obtained from them last night,. but it would appear that they were riding towards Macandrew Bay on’ a motor cycle at about -8 o’clock when they met a motor car, driven by Mr William Couston, of Maori Hill. Mr Couston’ was proceeding towards Dunedin, and when-he saw the motor cycle approaching he steered closer towards the bank at .the side of the road, but.the motor cycle appeared to skid in the loose shingle and almost immediately after-’ wards the driver of the car felt a-bump on his front wheel. He instantly swerved to the left and applied his brakes, with the result that the car struck the bank and capsized. .Mr Couston scrambled out but could find, no trace of, the motor-cyclists on the road, and on; looking over the bank on the harbour side of the road he saw the two riders lying on. the rocks with the cyple on top ,of them. He lifted the cycle* and with the assistance of two Macandrew Bay residents who arrived on the -scene, J“ e: injured persons were carried -hack to the roadway. A doctor was then summoned and they were, conveyed by ambulance to the Hospital, where, it-was found that the. girl was badly mutilated about the face whilst the young matr wassuffering from concussion. The girl resides with her mother at 388 Anderson's Bay road, where th<? young man • also boards. . At a late, hour last night it -was stated they were both on the dangerously