FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

Te Puke Times, 3 February 1928, Page 3

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

THREE KILLED WELL-KNOWN SPORTSMEN Dunedin. Feb 1 A tragic motor accident occurred this evening and resulted in the loss of three lives and injuries to one ether, all four being w ell-known in Dominion Sport ing circles. They comprised the members of a party who were motoring and the accident occurred about a quarter of a mile south of Milton. Details of the dead and injured are as fol’ows Killed A. B. Armour, a well-known, re’ tired farmer and racehorse owner. , Joseph Biggins, recently appointed handicapper to the Dunedin Jockey Club. Thomas Wilkins, owner and trainer, residing at Mosgiel, who died after admission to the Milton Hospital Injured L. G. Hill, secretary of the Dunedin Jockey Club. The party was proceeding homewards by car from the Tapanui races. It is thought that while they were endeavouring to pass another car going in the same direction" one of the rear tyres blew out. The car zigzagged across the road and then somersaulted at a dip on the roadside, two of the occupants being thrown out and pinned beneath the rear of the car. Aid was quickly summoned and the men were extricated, but it was found on releasing them that Messrs Armour and Biggins were dead. Another occupant of the car was lying huddled in the baok seat, unconscious and suffering from severe bruises. ■

The fourth was thrown out on the roadside and was also unconscious when he was pioked up. Mr Wilkins was found to be suffering from a severely-frac* tured skull and was removed to the Milton Hospital, where he died at about 11 o’clock without recovering conaoiousneas. Mr Hill was found to be suffering from injuries to the skull, fractured ribs, injuries to one hand and numerous bruises. After receiving medical aid Mr Hill was taken by oar to Dunedin and admitted to the Chalet Hospital,