TRAGIC ACCIDENT

Southland Times, Issue 21178, 3 September 1930, Page 6

TRAGIC ACCIDENT

MAN AN D WOMAN KIL LED TRAVELLING ON MOTOR CYCLE INVOLVED IN COLLISION (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, September 2. Two people are' dead through an accident which occurred at Heretaunga on the Main Hutt road at 6.45 p.m. to-day. They were travelling on a motor cycle apparently towards Wellington and the accident happened a short distance on the city side of Mason Bros.’ store, Heretaunga. Residents nearby heard a terrific crash aul rushed out to the road. The figures of a man and young woman were lying at the roadside. Both were shockingly injured. The damaged machine was a yard or two away. About 20 yards further on a new sedan motor car had crashed into the store and had come to rest with considerable damage to itself and building. The driver of the car was uninjured. The woman, who died almost as soon as she was found, was still unidentified late at night. The man, who died from his injuries in the ambulance while being taken to Wellington Hospital, was Joseph Alfred Banks, single, aged 29 years, a warder at Wikiako Prison, Heretaunga. The driver of the motor car which crashed into the shop, John Matthias Gamble, a motor salesman, said after the accident that another car was- travelling ahead of him in the same direction away from the city and attributed the accident to the car ahead. Gamble’s car, which was a new one, ran into the posts of the shop and broke more or less into the building itself. It was embedded in the structure with the front mudguard badly torn and windshield shattered. It was impossible this evening to find out definitely what the motor cycle had collided tvilh and how the accident had occurred.