SERIOUS INJURIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 14

SERIOUS INJURIES

HEAVY DAMAGES CLAIMED By Telefrrapta—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 7. Damages amounting to £2132/13/6 were claimed by Roy Theodore Edser, hairdresser, of Lower Hutt, in the Supreme Court to-day as a result of a motor collision in which he lost a foot, had seven ribs and his spine fractured, and received a perforated lung. The collision took place on Easter Monday last on the ramp at Lower Hutt. Edser was driving a motor-cycle and sidecar down the ramp when he collided near the bottom with a car driver by Violet Kells, the second defendant in the action. The first defendant was Robert Kells, father of the second defendant, and owner of the car. Edser alleged that the accident was due to Miss Kells driving on the wrong side of the road. This was denied by the defendants, who alleged that Edser had failed to keep to his correct side of the road. It was admitted that Miss Kells was not and never had been the holder of a driver’s license. Evidence for the defendant was still being heard when the court adjourned till to-morrow.