SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11474, 1 March 1918, Page 4

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.

GAR CAPSIZES OVER. RIMUTAKAS.

Per Press Association,

Wellington, Feb. 88. After a month’s holiday motortour through the heart of the North; , Island Messrs Pudsey (Petone) and Crawford (Lower Hutt), with their respective wives children, met with a serious accident on the ■ Rimutakas j - esterday afternoon. Near the top of the Rimutaka, Mr Crawford, who was driving, essayed to .pass a big motor lorry which had drawn up at Hillside. Unfortunately, the space left was not sufficient for the passenger car, .and it went hill, which at that ■ point is very steep, Mr Pudsey was the only absentee. He had left the car a few moments previously to get a drink of water. As the car went over one of the girls jumped out and escaped unhurt. Mr Crawford also jumped, and was comparatively uninjured. Four (Mrs Pudsey and Mrs Crawford and. two children) went with the car, which, after a dreadful fall of about 35 yards, struck a log and turned completely over, being smashed to pieces. Mrs Crawford and the children were thrown- out during the car’s headlong flight. Mrs Pudsey kent her seat until the car stopped, about fifty yards from tha brow of the hill, ‘ when she was thrown out with great violence. She was unconscious when picked up. Subsequently it was found that she had snstaited serious injuries to one of her shoulders, besides minor bruises and shock. Cue of the girls had received serious injury to a leg, there being a gaping wound from fc the knee to the ankle. Mrs Crawford sustained a broken wrist, besides minor injuries, and the boy was badly bruised about the head and other parts of the body. Tlie sufferers were brought to the top of the Hill by rescue parties, and taken to Grey town Hospital, where they have undergone treatment.