COLLISION ON HUTT ROAD
CYCLISTS SERIOUSLY HURT
IfAM AND WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS.
CAR DRIVEN BY CANON JAMES.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Last Night.
Serious injury was suffered by two riders of a motor-cycle which came into collision with a motor-car driven by Canon Percival James, vicar of St. Paul’s, on the Hutt Road this afternoon. Those injured were:—
Miss Irene Higgins, 169 Tasman Street, reader in the Government Printing Office —severe fracture at the base of the skull and abrasions.
John David Buckley, 190 Tinakori Road, railway fireman—serious head injuries, fractured right foot. The motor-cycle, which was driven by Mr. Buckley, was coming towards the city from Hutt and the motor-car was going from Wellington. The vehicles were at Kaiwarra when the accident occurred.
Both Mr. Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up. Canon James was unhurt. The two injured were taken to hospital. Late to-night neither had regained consciousness.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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