SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 48

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

COLLISION ON PORTOBELLO ROAD.

MOTOR CYCLISTS 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 on Thursday 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 tfiey 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 w - as 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 afterwards 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 cycle on top of them. He lifted the cycle, and with the assistance of two Macandrew Bay residents who arrived on the scene, the injured persons were carried back 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 man was suffering from concussion. The girl resides with her mother at 388 Anderson’s Bay road, where the young man also boards.