FOUR WOMEN INJURED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22786, 10 January 1944, Page 4

FOUR WOMEN INJURED

Car Crashes Down Hillside

Vehicle Out Of Control

(N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND. Jan. 9 Four women were admitted to the Auckland Public Hospital this afternoon as the result of injuries received when the car in which they were travelling left the road on Piha hill leading down to the beach and crashed 50 feet down a steep hillside into a gully.

Before leaving the road the car struck an American serviceman who was standing on the side of the road and he was taken to an American Hospital. The driver of the car, J. Arthur, of Mount Eden, and two other women passengers escaped serious injury and were not admitted to hospital. The persons in hospital are:— Mrs Olive Florence Wolfe, aged 45. of Mount Eden—lacerations to scalp, concussion and injuries to the back and a leg.

Miss Andrey Leona Beagle, aged 23. of Helensville—Concussion, abrasions and a possible fractured nose. Miss Kathleen Gertrude Shadlock, aged 24, of Belmont, Wellington—Concussion, abrasions, a possible fracture of the ribs and passible internal injuries, and her sister.

Miss Pauline Mildred Shadlock, aged 18. of the same address—Concussion and shock.

The car was proceeding down the hill towards Piha Beach at noon when it struck an American serviceman who was standing on the roadside repairing the punctured tyre of a vehicle.

Soon after the serviceman was struck, the car appeared to become out of control. The vehicle overturned on its way down the hillside and came to rest on its wheels beside a creek.

A party of American servicemen travelling behind the car rushed down the hillside and carried the occupants up on to the road where they performed first aid until the arrival of a doctor.