CAR CAPSIZES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 December 1926, Page 5

CAR CAPSIZES.

ELDERLY MAN KILLED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) TAURANGA, Sunday. A motor car fatality occurred about 3 o’clock this afternoon about nine miles from Tauranga, on the TaurangaWaihi road. It appears that Mr Leslie Allan Cooper, employed at the borough hydroelectric station at McLaren’s falls, with his wife and two children, drove to Waikino yesterday to bring * Airs Cooper’s parents, Air and Airs John Odium, of Waikino, across' for Christmas. The party were returning to-day, and when they reached the point stated the car apparently swerved, hit a bank and capsized. Cooper, who was driving, was thrown out through the windscreen. Mrs Cooper was also thrown clear, and the children also escaped uninjured. Air Odium was picked up dead, and Airs Odium was 1 found to be seriously injured. A passing motor car, driven by Air Hugo Dickson, came upon the party, and found Odliuu and the Coopers clear of the car, but Airs Odium and the two Cooper children were still mixed up in the wrecked hood. With the assistance of some men who arrived almost simultaneously from the other direction in a motor lorry, the overturned car was lifted clear of the children, who were all right, but Airs’ Odium was found to bo seriously injured, and was conveyed by Air Dickson to the Tauranga Hospital, where she was found to be suffering from a. fractured skull, broken leg, and internal injuries. Airs Odium’s condition is critical.