NINE PERSONS INJURED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 9

NINE PERSONS INJURED

CAR’S CHASIJ INTO PROWD

CHRISTMAS EVE MISHAP

SCENE OF CONFUSION

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, last night

One person was killed, and at least nine are known to have been injured, two very seriously, in Karangahape' road on Christinas Eve when a large motor car mounted the kerb and crashed into the crowd on the pavement. In addition. it- is believed that there were a number of pedestrians who suffered injury, but were able to go to their hon , ''-> without receiving immediate attent: The victoms of the accident were : —Dead—

Mrs. Rose Morrison, 37. of Grey I internal injuries and shock. —Seriously Injured — Mrs. Maria Ecclestone, 42, of Grey

Lynn; compound fracture to the left leg and shock ; condition serious. Hugh Boston, 55, Freeman’s Bay; leg injuries and shock. Ernest Leary, 47, Mount Albert; head injuries and shock. —lnjured

Mrs. Eunice Leary, of Mount- Albert; fractured left shoulder, and abrasions. Allan’Leary,‘ 3, Of Mdtint Albert; abrasions ami sprained left ankle.' Thomas Ecclestone, of Grey Lynn ; injury to ankle. ; Master Stanley Roberts, of ronsonby; abrasions 1 to back, legs and arms. William Mudford, 43, of Newtoii; cut on right" ankle.' The first four victims were admitted to hospital, while the others were able to go to their homes after receiving treatment.

The motor car, which was driven Iby James KiUen, of Matarmi, near Cambridge, who vas accompanied by live passengers, had been'parked on 'an ‘angle and it was when the engine- was being re-started that the car suddenly mounted the kerb. Before Rillcn Could regain control ol it, the ckr travelled across tho pavement and, after knocking three, youths through "a plate-glass window in the entrance to Flackston's Limited shop, continued about 'lsyds. along the pavement. At the time of the accident the footpath was racked with people doing Christmas shopping. Amid cries, mingled with sho.ifthg, pedestrians “wera thrown to light- and left, the scene being one of nli':'ost confusion. None‘ot the occupants in the car was injured.