ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16788, 4 May 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTOR ACCIDENT. A severe motor accident occurred on the Hamilton Road just beyond the Cambridge boundary on Saturday evening aboul 5.80, when a ear driven by Mr. Carroll, from Cambridge, collided heavily with a motor car driven by Mr. B. Lanstrom with a parly returning from the races at Tc Napa. Mr. Carroll bJd Jusl passed one car, but got too close lo il which caused a slight collision, swerving Hie car across the road. Jn endeavouring lo get back on lo Ibe road again, he came, across too sharply and crashed into Mr. Lanslronfs car.

Mr. Carroll was injured aboul, the face |iy Hying glass, while, Mr, l.ansirom's parly got off willi a severe shaking. Mr. l.ansirom's car was badly damaged lo Iho cxlcnl of SMOO. iliy Telegraph-—Press Association.) GISBOHNE, Monday. .Mrs Sclina Savage (al) dropped dead al. 1 I o'clock lasl. nigh I wbilsl walking home wilh her husband, Mr Alonzn Savage, afler visiting Ihe house of a friend. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. A fractured leg was sustained by Mr Mallhew Campbell, single, aged li. on Western Wharf yesterday afternoon, lie was wa'lching workmen engaged in driving piles, when one oi' I)11- piles slipped, crushing Ids leg.* KsYi-.RCAROJLL, Tuesday. Robert. Shawl, a single man, employed al Argyll! Slalioii. lias been missing since Saturday, when he left Ihe Immeslrad lo tiring in Ihe cows. lie had lo cross a river, and il is feared lie has been drowned, as bis horse has returned home.