CRASH INTO BARB-WIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 1

CRASH INTO BARB-WIRE

MOTOR-CYCLIST AND GIRL INJURED ACCIDENT AT MANGERE Riding along Robertson Road, just beyond Mangerc, about 7.30 last evening, David Wright, a motor-cyclist, found that he was travelling too fast to get safely round a corner. He went straight on through a barbed wire fence into a paddock. QN the pillion of the machine was Miss Maud Latter. Both she and Mr. Wright were flung off the machine, and received very painful cuts from the barbed wire. The shock was so great that for a short time they were unable to move, but Miss Latter saw the lights of an approaching car, and managed to make her way back to the road and hail it. The car was driven by Mr. A. Mephan, of Taumarunui, a visitor to Auckland, who is at present staying at a city hotel. He was accompanied by Mr. T. E. West, another visitor from Taumarunui. They stopped the car, and questioned Miss Latter. She was very weak from loss of blood from the cuts on her face, but she succeeded in guiding them to where Mr. Wright was lying, some distance in from the road. He had a very serious wound on his right leg, and had lost a great deal of blood, so that he had to be carried to the motor-car. Mr. Mephan then drove at full speed to the Auckland Hospital, where the two victims of the accident were immediately admitted. This morning it is reported that their condition is fairly satisfactory. Mr. Wright lives at J.2 Hayden Street, Newton, and Miss Latter in Princes Street, Otahuhu. It was fortunate, said Mr. Mephan, that they happened to be passing at the time, for the accident happened in a lonely place, and he had not seen any cars on the road all the evening.