MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 8

MOTOR ACCIDENT.

NUMEROUS SLIGHT INJURIES. (Per Press Association.} Timaru, April 11. In order to avoid a collision with a gig at a street crossing in a quiet part of the town this afternoon, the owner and driver turned a big motor ear too sharply round the corner, with the result that one of the hind wheels collapsed, and the ear fell oil its side, throwing out the driver and four or live young passengers. The car, nevertheless, hit the gig, but behind, and threw it forward and capsized it. The driver of the car had a collarbone and one or more ribs broken. His sister and Miss K. Ardagh, daughter of tho proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, both suffered severely from concussion and bruises. The other occupants of the car escaped with scratches and bruises. A man in the gig, Mr P. Butler, struck the kerb with his head when he fell, and was cut about the face, and later showed signs of skull fracture. The ambulance men did good service, before the doctors arrived, in removing the patients, three of them to the hospital. A tall hedge at the corner proba'bly had something to do in bringing about tho accident.