MOTOR SMASH.
ACCIDENT ON THE HUTT ROAD. MAN & WOMAN BADLY INJURED. •WELLINGTON, April 6. Serious injury was suffered by two riders of a motor cycle which came into collision with a motor car driven by Canon Percival James, Vicar of St. Paul’s on the Hutt Road this afternoon. Those injured are Miss Irene Higgins, 169 Tasman Street, a reader in the Government Printing Office, severe fracture of the base of the skull and abrasions and John David Buckley, 199 Tinakori Road, railway direman, serious head injuries and fracture of the right foot. The motor cycle, which was driven by Buckley, was coming towards the city from the Hutt and the motor car was going from Wellington. The vehicles were at Kaiwarra when the accident occurred. Both Buckley and Miss Higgins were unconscious when picked up. Canon James, the driver of the car, was unhurt. The two injured were removed to hospital and late to-night neither had regained consciousness. —{P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1931, Page 4
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