MOTORS IN COLLISION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3842, 1 November 1927, Page 60

MOTORS IN COLLISION.

A VIOLENT IMPACT. ONE CAR WRECKED. BLENHEIM. October 28. . A motor accident occurred on the main highway at Grovetown last night. Two cars met with such a violent impact that one of them was badly wrecked, and the other, momentarily out of control, left the road, grazed a telegraph pole, and crashed into a stump, where it ' was pulled up ouite undamaged. Fred Dodson, Spring Creek, was driving his car home from Blenheim when he encountered a car driven by Hugh Murray, of Grovetown, who was driving in the opposite direction. Murray’s car struck the rear wheel of Dodson’s car with such force that the wheel was smashed right off and was sent spinning over a fence, and it was found some 30ft from the scene of the collision. The whole rear axle assembly of the car was wrenched out of nlacc. and guard, running board, and petrol tank crumpled un. but the ear came to a dead stop immediately after the smash, and Dodson was ouite unhurt. Mr Hord, who accompanied him, was also unhurt. Murray’s car was practically undamaged, and the occupants not injured.

” Bowlers good ci(i;-e’ l « for t-.vo reasons, ’ said the Mayor of Timaru (Mr G J Wallac.'l at the official opening of the Timaru Bowling Club last Saturday (reports the Herald). “ First they play bowls so late that it is too dark when thev ixo home to notice the holes in tho footpath, and secondly they lejive the green so happy that they have no desire to growl alieut the increased rates. They ar« excellent citizens from the municipality’s point of view.” —(Laughter.)