MOTORING MISHAPS.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18241, 15 July 1931, Page 2

MOTORING MISHAPS.

YOUNG WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES. . j A young woman's experiences in a moLor-car on baluruay aiternoou will probably not soon be forgotten ' either by herself or her passengers (says the Dominion). Her first adventure was on the Hutt Road, about three o'clock in the afternoon. Driving from the Hutt, she had reached nearly to Kaiwarra when she decided to turn back. Approaching her was a man on a motor-cycle with his wife on cue p.llioii seat. The young woman apparently thought she had sufficient time to get round, and also that the motor-cyclist would get past' on the outside. She misjudged in both these respects. The motorcyclist elected to "hug" the left side of the road, and to go through between the edge of the bitumen track and the motor-car. He failed, with the result that motor-cycle, rider and passenger fell on to the ploughed strip of metalled road. Nobody was hurt, and the motor-cycle did not appear to be damaged. The young woman descended from the ear, and a lively argument arose. Each party blamed the other. The pent-up feeling's of the young woman got the better of her, and when a suggestion was made that the police should be called in to arbitrate, she cried bitterty, and would have fallen to the ground had not some man caught her. Two hours later a crowd of people were observed round a car near the Hutt Bridge. About a dozen men were straining to lift' the front of the car whilst a man underneath was doing his best to place a jack in position. It was the same ear ~ which, earlier in the afternoon, had been the centre of trouble on the Hutt Road. It was also the same fair driver.

The explanation given was that the tyre on the left front wheel had punctured, and that the cover had come off. As there was no proper jack in the car, help had to be secured from a passing lorry. When ultimately the car was jacked up and work could be commenced on the tyre, the youncr woman gratefully shook hands all round. Also she seemed much happier than two hours before.