MOTORIST CUT ABOUT

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1935, Page 4

MOTORIST CUT ABOUT

FIRST AID MEASURES NOT TAKEN. INSTRUCTION THOUGHT NECESSARY By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Commenting on a recent motoring accident in which a passenger in a capsized car suffered cuts, a Wellington business man said yesterday that, though by the time the car in which he was travelling had arrived fully a dozen cars and probably 30 people were on the scene, nothing effective had been done to stop the flow of blood from a severed artery, because no one knew what to do. Moreover, not one car at the roadside carried anything in the way of a first aid kit. He suggested a lot of good might be done by giving elementary first aid lessons to older school children. Interviewed, the secretary of the Automobile Association mentioned that the response to first aid classes given members by the St. John’s Ambulance had been very poor. He mentioned that all the association’s patrol men were qualified first aid men.