COUPLE IN HOSPITAL
MOTOR CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE (Per Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, last night. Serious injury was suffered' by two riders of a motor cycle which came into collision with a motor car driven by Canon Percival James, vicar of .St. Paul's, on the Hutt road this afternoon. Those injured are: Miss Irene Higgins, IG9 Tasman street, a reader in the Government printing office, severe fracture of the base of the skull and abrasions; John David Buckley, 190 Tinakori road, railway fireman, serious head injuries and fracture of the right foot. The motor cycle, which was driven by Buckley, was coming towards the city from Hutt, and the motor car was going from Wellington. The vehicles were at Kaiwarra. when the accident occurred. Both Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up. Canon James, the driver of the car, was .Unhurt. The, two injured persons were removed to hospital by the free ambulance. Lalo to-night neither had regained consciousness..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 4
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