HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 8

HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

WO MEN KILLED AND ONE INJURED CAR PLUNGES*2SO FEET SMASH ON NAPIER-TAUPO ROAD [ Per Press Association.] HASTINGS, Jan. 2. Two were killed and one injured len a motor-car in which they were ivelling on the Napier-Taupo Road t the roadway and plunged 250 feet vn the Turangakuma Hill, near rawera, at 6.30 on Sunday evening. KILLED. Wiliam Kenneth Weir, single, aged 30 Montrose Street, Sydenham, ristchurch. Kenneth Samuel Mack, single, aged 199 Tinakori Road, Wellington. INJURED. Jedric Roland Hogan, aged 23, igle, 99 Main South Roao, Upper rcarton, Christchurch, aorasions; ndition not serious. Ml three were meat inspectors emiyed at the Auckland farmers’ eezing Company, Moerewa, North ickland. 'rhe live-seater saloon, nid by Hogan, was being driven by eir, who had just taken the wheel, hile passing another car the saloon t the road and rolled down a bank ter somersaulting three times rough scrub and bracken. It landed its wheels on the same road as that lien it had left, but two hundred et below where the road curves back wer on the hill. Hogan, who es>ed with injuries. was thrust irough the roof of the vehicle as it unged down the hillside and was and about half-way down. Mack, io suffered extensive head injuries, ccumbed several hours after the eident. Weir was killed instantly. The car was extensively damaged. : roof being almost torn off and the ly shattered. Police and a doctor from Napiet re on the scene about 11 p.m.. The ured man was removed to the pier Public Hospital in the doctor s YOUNG MAORI KILLED CAR SOMERSAULTS DOWN AN 80-FOOT BANK COMPANION SLIGHTLY INJURED [Per Press Association.] WAIPUKURAU, Jan. 2. •iri Cyril Wakefield, a Maori, aged was killed at Wanstead, near Waicurau, at 11.45 a.m. on Sunday, en a five-seater old model touring , in which he was a passenger, aersaulted down an 80-foot bank ►r running over a low slope on the ! of the road. ludly Ropiha, of Foxton, was the |T other occupant. He was driving i had a miraculous escape, sufferminor injuries only, abrasions and ire shock. He was admitted to the pukurau Hospital. is thought that the driver fell ep while driving, as the youths had no sleep the previous night, they had been carolling with a aber of Maoris at Porangahau, as he custom there each year. When accident occurred the youths were their way to Waipawa. ELDERLY MAN KILLED KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR .CCIDENT NEAR BLENHEIM [ Per Press Association.] BLENHEIM, Jan. 2. he New Year began badly in Marlough when a fatal accident ocred rithin two hours of midnight Saturday night. An elderly pedesn was killed by an overtaking or-car on highway at Spring Bk. It was the first serious road dent of the holidays in this dishe victim was James Reed, aged single, a labourer, who was forma resident of Nelson. The car driven by Alick Morgan, aged 23, Marshlands, who was returning 1 a New Year's Eve carnival at lheim. accompanied by his sister another young man. eed, who was wearing a dark suit, walking on the bitumen surfacwithin a few chains of his whare •n he was struck by the left-hand it bumper, receiving a fractured 11, which was instantly fatal. VOMAN TENNIS CHAMPION INJURED ISS MARGARET BEVERLEY TOR-CAR GOES OVER A BANK. [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 3. liss Margaret Beverley, of Malala, he champion woman tennis per of New Zealand, suffered inies the right forearm when a car Which she was travelling skidded I went over a bank in attempting pass another car on the hill been Chart e.-is Bay and Allandale, on kiay. She was admitted to the ■iatchurch Public Hospital at 8.45 i. Several stitches were inserted in i. right wrist and she is suffering uiderahly rom shock. Though her idftlon is no! a! all serious, she will unable to participa’e further in the <e Zealand tennis championship irssament.