TWO MEN KILLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19973, 17 October 1927, Page 7

TWO MEN KILLED

A FATAL SMASH Motor Cyclists Terribly Injured in Collision BODIES BADLY MUTILATED (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, Oct. 16. A shocking accident resulting in a double fatality occurred at Hillcrest, Hamilton, at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, when a large limousine car driven by John Blair, agdd 19, a motor mechanic, struck a light motor-cycle, killing two men. Both received frightful injuries, being mutilated almost beyond recognition. The dead men are John Ward, aged 27, an employee of the Matangi Glaxo Factory, whose parents reside at Henderson, and Walter Thornton Reynolds, aged 25, another employee of the factory and a son of Mr John Reynolds of Rotorua. The car driver was accompanied by his mother, but neither sustained injuries, and only slight damage was done to the vehicles, despite the fatal nature of the accident. Both men on the motor-cycle had fractured skulls, broken right legs, deep wounds in the body and many superficial injuries. The car was proceeding into Hamilton when the collision took place, at the corner of Cambridge Road with the main Hamilton —Thames road, the mo-tor-cycle being struck on the front right side by the front right mudguard of the car.

Ward, the rider, was killed instantly and Reynolds, who was on the pillion, was hurled live yards up a bank at the side of the road, succumbing to his terrible injuries 1A hours after admission to the Waikato Hospital.