MOTOR COLLISION.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 6

MOTOR COLLISION.

ON TE AROHA ROAD.

THREE MEN INJURED. . • WAIHI RESIDENTS’ MISHAP, (Special to Times.) MORRINSVILLE. Sunday. Three Waihi residents, Messrs A. Broadfoot, J. Hicks and W. Tanner, were injured in a motor collision on the Te Aroha road about a mile east of Morrinsville about 8 o clock last evening- \ . Mr Tanner was drivmg a party of seven adults and two children home to Waihi from Claudelands, where they had been attending the trotting meeting. His car is a seven-seater Hudson, j Rounding a sharp bend after cross- i ing a small bridge, the car crashed into ! another driven by Mr William Munroe of Cambridge. The injured men were treated at a private hospital in Morrinsville and afterwards sent, to Waihi hospital in the Te Aroha ambulance. The rest of the passengers escaped any serious injury. Both cars were damaged. A mudguardand running board were ripped off Mr Tanner’S' car and the hood was smashed. The righthand front wheel of Mr Munroe’s car was torn off, the axle bent and machinery damaged. The scene of the accident, near the Piako River bridge is one of the most dangerous spots in the Te Aroha-Mor-rinsville road. The bend in the road almost amounts to a right-angle and owing to the high pine trees on the inside of the bend cars are quite invisible until close upon each other. PATIENTS PROGRESSING. ONE CASE STILL SERIOUS. On telephoning to Waihi Hospital this morning we were informed that Messrs Broadfoot and Hicks had made progress since admission to the hospital, but that 'Mr Broaafoot’s condition was still serious. He had received injuries to the head and shoulder, but no bones were fractured. Mr Hicks was also injured about the head. Mr Tanner had not been admitted tr» the hospital. :