MOTOR DRIVER DID NOT STOP.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19267, 2 January 1931, Page 6

MOTOR DRIVER DID NOT STOP.

SPEEDED OFF AFTER HE HAD INJURED GIRL. Driving along Page’s Road at 1.30 a.m. yesterday a motorist ran into a stationary motor-cycle on which were a man and girl, the latter on the pillion seat. The machine was carried almost thirty feet by the impact, and the girl was thrown off but the driver of the car never slackened his speed. A motor-cyclist nearby chased the car but its lights were put out. The motor-cyclist managed to catch it after travelling at fifty miles an hour, but he w’as ridden into the gutter by the car driver, who swerved over as the motor-cyclist tried to get in front. The girl, Miss Eileen Harris, of 77 Hoon Hay Road, Spreydon, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, but her condition is not serious. The rider of the machine on which she was a pillion passenger, James Fraser, of 250 Armagh Street, was thrown off but was only slightly hurt. Clarence Thomas, of 115 Forfar Street, St Albans, who chased the car on his motorcycle was tossed off his machine when it was run off the road, but was not injured. \ Fraser’s- motor-cycle was stationary at the side of Page’s Road, near Sandilands, facing town, with Thomas’s machine on the footpath side of it, the latter waiting for his pillion passenger who was in a house nearby. When the car came along and hit the outside machine Thomas started up his motorcycle and gave chase towards the city. He caught the motor-car, which was without lights after the crash, at Rhona Street, off Buckley’s Road, but when forcing his way to the front near the corner of Aldwin’s Road to make the car pull up he was forced into the footpath, taking a tumble. The car then went on its way at a rapid speed.

Thomas stated that he secured the number of the car, and the police questioned a man, who denied that he was anywhere in the vicinity of the spot where the crash occurred.