THE HUTT ROAD FATALITY

Patea Mail, 4 March 1936, Page 4

THE HUTT ROAD FATALITY

PILLION HIDE Li SUCCUMBS. CAR DRIVER -ARRESTED. Further details of the collision between a motor cyclist and car on the Hntt Pond, Wellington, on Saturday evening when. Mr. Charles Bradshaw, aged 2f, grocer’s assistant of Pa tea, I lie owner of the motor cycle, was instantly killed, state that he received shocking injuries, Ids skull, jaw, nose, right leg, ami ankle being broken. The pillion rider, Mr. Ernest Marston, aged -F!, a painter and decorator, of 49, Britannia Street, Petonc, married, with four (Children, and undo of Bradshaw, roc.died a fractured spine and .fractured right leg, ami succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning. Mr. Bradshaw, whoso mother, Mrs. T. Alloa, lives at Arid Street, Stratford, had been staying with Mr. Hurston, aud the two left Pctone shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday to go to the speedway racing at the Hilbirnie stadium. The motor cycle collided- with the motor car soon after passing the Again Gorge Road. Mr. Marstoa was thrown clear, but Mr. Bradshaw was pushed along with his motor cycle by the car until it stopped on the western side of the road. The cyclist was jammed ’with his machine against the bank by the front left mudguard and wheel of the car. He was pulled clear of the cycle by some passers-by. He Wins beyond assistance. The left-hand mudguard of the car was deeply dented bind the bumper bar and radiator were bent back. The motor cyclist’s front wheel was crushed into the engine, which was partially snashecL and Ihe handle-bars were twisted out of shape, Police arrived soon after Mr. Bradshaw had bee a extricated aud arrested McEeynolds, the driver of the car, who was. not injured. A passenger in the car also escaped without injury. The funeral- of the late Mr. Bradshaw took place at Stratford yesterday afternoon;

CHARGE OF INTOXICATION. HEAVY HAIL. Charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car and with Jribing negligently so as to cause dcilth, William Me Reynolds, a ship’s fireman, aged 20, the driver of the car which struck a motor cycle on the Hutt Road on Saturday night, as a result of which Charles Bradshaw and Ernest Alarston died, appeared in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Monday, and was remanded till March 1,1 by Mr. .10. 'D. Mosley, S.M. Detective Sergeant L. Rovcll opposed bail, saying the charge was a serious one. Accused was single and hud no stake in the country, and had a. criminal record. Bail was allowed in £SOO, with two sureties of £250 each or one of £SOO, on condition .accused reports to the police twice daily. Mr. M. G, Neal appeared for the accused.