TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 9

TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS

Toll of road in Auckland. j l Per Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. Two men were killed nd nearly twenty perrons injured, several seriously, in holiday motoring accidents in Auckland on Christmas r.vc and Christmas Day. Early in the mm nine of Christmas Day a motor drive through Mission Bay had a tragic endini; v hen :> carl containing lire young num became out of control just in trout o. the. cabaret. After swerving across the I road, it iun.i.'-i a c’.iherl <•:■ io lhe, footpath and lin.diy < : t.shcd. w . .it-:-side on with violen: impact, ni-> a telegraph po The ti: is < t v. a - llirov. n inio the ; culvert " ith < xb-n-ne in ini'". Hom I which lie die d al lhe Aui kland Ho.-pi- , tai 12 hours later. His companion m lhe front -eat was alm admitted tt i hospital. v.hilc the remaining three passengers suftered minor injuries The driver was Andrew Miller Don-, nachie, aged 26, single. motpr-scruee driver, of New Lynn. Kenneth Lloyd Williams, aged 24. single, motorservice driver, of devotion received severe head injuries anti concussion. His condition is serious. A fatal accident occurred early on Christmas Day morning, when D. B. Ready, a retired railway servant, v.as knocked down on the main toad at Papakura by a car. The injured num died almost immediately. WOMAN KILLED MOTOR < 1< I L O\ lIKTI DNS. ACCIDENT NEAR NAI'IEII. I Icr rw • A - ■' w l NAPIUii. I■' 'd' One person v r.. killed and a tmw - months'-old child seriously iniuiem when a motor-cycle, viih a su.ccat attached, capsized in loose shingle at Eskdale. about seven o'clock on Christmas morning. The person killed was Mrs. Ne.oe Veta Cranston. 26 years, of 61 Watnui Avenue. Point Chevalier, reUCnland. Deceased, and her husband anc two children, wore on the way from Auckland-to spend the holidays with Mrs. Cranston's brother, Mr. \v. G.

Simmonds, Munroe Street. ap •; Reaching a turnoff, deceased drew Inc : attention of the husband, the drivel ' of the motor-cycle, that they taking the wrong route, and m the ' act of turning to go the right way the vehicle skidded, in loose shmgie and overturned. Mrs. Cranston was killed outright, while the 1 111 , , months’-oia child va> taker, to .in I Napier Hospital in a serious cornu- i tion, suffering from head mjuiuw Mr. Cranston received attention all the Napier Hospital and was an.e to ( leave the institution, while the true-'-year-old child was uninjured. Mr. Simmonds, who was on bis way from Napier to meet his sister, strived shortly after the accident o. -urred. _