TOLL OF THE MOTOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1924, Page 6

TOLL OF THE MOTOR.

THREE SERIOUS ACCIDENTS, WOMAN KILLED IN CANTERBURY. CAR SKIDS AND OVERTURNS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Charlotte Jane Torrens, a married woman, who resided in Christchurch, died in hospital to-night as the result of concussion and shock due to a motor, car, in which ehe was riding, overturning. The car, which was being driven byMrs. James Murphy, of Fendalton, skidded in some loose shingle on the road, between JJncoln and Ladbrooks. It became unmanageable and overturned. The three occupants were thrown out. Two escaped injury but Mrs. Torrens was hurt as described and died half an hour after admission to the hospital.

SOMERSAULT INTO GULLY. FOUR INJURED NEAR GREYMOUTH, MOTOR-CAR DROPS FORTY FEET. Grey mouth, Last Night. A motor accident occurred at a dangerous bend of the road from Greymouth to Omoto about 5 p.m. to-day. A car containing five met another when ascending the hill, and getting on the outer edg| struck the culvert and somersaulted twics into a gully 40 feet deep, stopping with the wheels uppermost. The driver was pinned beneath the car but the others were thrown clear. William Fisher, senior, and Miss O’Brien each had a rib fractured, Mrs. Fisher and William Fisher Junr. (the driver) suffered from shock, and the fifth man, named Woods, escaped. The car was badly damaged.

ACCIDENT NEAR WAIHL WOMAN SUSTAINS BROKEN LEG. SMALL BOY LOSES AN EYE. Waihi, Last Night. Yesterday afternoon a motor-car, as the result of running up a bank while descending the steep road leading to Waikino, turned a complete somersault. Two of the occupants, Mrs. F. Kinsella and her little son, aged two years, were seriously injured, the former sustaining a broken leg and the latter -having his eye torn out and Lis face and. neck severely gashed. The driver, F. Kinsella, was badly bruised. .