DOUBLE FATALITY

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 9

DOUBLE FATALITY

MOTOR CYCLISTS KILLED BODIES BADLY MUTILATED STRUCK BY LIMOUSINE DRIVER & MOTHER ESCAPE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. A shocking accident resulting in a double fatality occurred at Hillcrest, Hamilton, at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, when a large limousine car driven by John Blair, aged 19, a motor mechanic, struck a light motor-cycle and killed two men. Both of them received frightful injuries ,their bodies being mutilated almost beyond recognition.

The dead men are:— John Ward, aged 27, an employee of the Matangi Glaxo Factory. His parents reside at Henderson. Walter Thornton Reynolds, aged 25, another employee of the,Matangi Glaxo Factory, and a son of Mr. John Reynolds, of Rotorua. The driver of the ear was accompanied by his mother, but neither received injuries. Only slight damage was done to the vehicles.

Both the men on the motor-cycle had fractured skulls, broken right legs, deep wounds on the body and many superficial injuries. The car was proceeding into Hamilton when the collision took place at the corner of Cambridge Road and the main Hamilton-Thames road.

The motor-cycle was struck on the front of the right side by the front right mudguard of the car. Ward, the rider, was killed instantly, ond Reynolds, riding pillion, was hurled live yards up the bank on the side of the road. He succumbed to his terrible injuries an hour and a half after his admission to tho Waikato Hospital.