FAILURE TO DIM.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 10 November 1924, Page 3

FAILURE TO DIM.

LEADS TO SERIOUS SMASH. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This day The failure of two drivers to dim the lights on their motor cars is thought to have been accountable for an accident which occurred on the Hutt Road on haturday night, in which four persons were injured. Stanley Ashton, who was returning from Petone to Wellington, states that when near the railway bridge atlvaiwarra he saw approaching him two motor cars with strong headlights. He dimmed his lights but they did not. As a consequence he became blinded by the glare and found himseil heading straight for one of the concrete piers of the bridge. He swerv. d sharply to avoid it, at the same time pushing down what he thought was the footbrake, but which proved to be tbe accelerator. The car leapt forward and struck a stout telegraph pole, snapping it in two. It then turned a complete somersault and became a complete wreck. Aston bad his left arm broken, but the other occupants marvellously escaped with slight injuries.