SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 2

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.

UNFORTUNATE END' TO A

HOLIDAY

After a month's holiday motor tour through the heart of the North Island as far as Ilotorua, Messrs. Pudsey (watchman at the Petone Woollen Mills) and Crawford (poultry-farmer, Lower Hlitt), with I their respective wives and three children (two girls and a boy), met with a senous accident on theßimutaka between 3 and 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, says the "Post." Near the top of the Rimutaka, Mr Crawford, who. was driving, essayed, to pass a. big motor lorry which had drawn up at the hillside. Unfortunately, the space left was not sufficient for the passenger car, and it •went over the hill, which at that point is very steep. Mr Pudsey was the only absentee. Ho 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 mparatively uninjured. The four others (Mrs Pudsey and Mrs Crawford and the two children) went with the cay, which, after a dreadful fall of about thirty-fivi! yards, struck a log and turned complotely over, being smashed to pieces., Mrs Crawford and the children ivere thrown out during the car's headlong j flight. Mrs Pudsey kept her seat \intil the car stopped, about fifty yards from the brow of the hill, when she was thrown out with great violence. She was unconscious when picked up, and subsequently it was found that she had sustained serious injuries to a leg, there being a gaping wound from 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. The sufferers were brought to the top of the hill by rescue parties, and taken to the Greytown Hospital, where they jiv<> iinflfirp-nirijr treatment.