MOTORING ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18343, 1 June 1931, Page 6

MOTORING ACCIDENTS

YOUTH KILLED A FATAL COLLISION. DRIVER OF CAR DECAMPS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, Sunday. A youth, Raymond Smith, aged 18, a resident of Napier, was killed on Saturday afternoon while riding a motor-cyole in Hastings, as a result of a collision with a car. Another young man, named Chee, who was in the side-car attached to the motor-lorry, was Injured. The driver of the car and another occupant decamped immediately after the accident, and no trace of them has been found. The car was damaged extensively. The oycle was practically wrecked. The owner of the car, Mr Rangl K. Kamau, of Bridge Pa, left it outside Cornwall Park gates w’hile he was at-, tending a hockey match. Immediately he found that his car was missing he reported the matter to the police, and it' was while he w r as at the police station doing so that the accident in which the car was Involved occurred. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. AUCKLAND, Monday. Reginald William Woolley, a single man, aged 27, w r as admitted to the hospital suffering from concussion. While driving his car he collided with the back of a stationary tramcar Mrs Lottie Pratt, aged 44, of Henderson, received abrasions on the head when a car in which she was riding capsized on Saturday. William Albert Hounslow’, aged 25, of Onehunga, received concussion ami abrasions as a result of a spill from his motor-cycle. John East, of Ponsonby, and Charles Henry Goodison, of Grey Lynn, are In hospital w’ith a fractured arm and a fractured leg respectively. Dorothy Welson, aged 15, of Point Chevalier, received internal Injuries when she was knocked down by a motor-car. FALL FROM A LORRY. MAN KILLED INSTANTLY., WHANG AREI, Monday. John Newby, aged about 45 years, married with nine children, a resident of Hikurangi, when returning from a social organised by the pigeon fanciers on Saturday night, fell from the running board of a lorry and was killed instantly. COLLISION WITH TRAMCAR. MAN AND GIRL INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. As a result of the motor-cycle on which they were riding colliding with a tramcar Mr Frank Smith, aged 22, and Miss Zoe Aldridge, aged 20, each had a leg fractured and received head injuries.; . , , LITTLE GIRL HURT. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. DUNEDIN, Monday. Mary Cocherell, aged 9 years, sustained serious head injuries when she was knocked down by a motor car in Princess Street on Saturday afternoon. Her condition is reported to be dangerous, though she has slightly improved. CARS IN COLLISION. WIIATAWHATA ROAD MISHAP. The front wheel of one car was torn off and two wheels of. another w’ere shattered in a collision. which occurred on the Whatawhata Road about three and a-half miles from Frankton, on Saturday night. The cars Involved w’ere driven by Raymond John Phipps, of Frankton, and William Leopold Covert, of Waltetuna. Phipps was coming Into Frankton, and Covert w r as proceeding in the opposite direction. The two vehicles collided, the front right and left rear wheels of Covert’s car collapsing. A front w’heel of Phipps’ vehicle was torn off. The occupants of both cars escaped Injury. ACCIDENT AT INTERSECTION. DRIVER CUT BY GLASS. The intersection of Rosstrevor Street and Norton Road, near Seddon Park, w’as the scene of a collision on Saturday night, involving two cars. A car owned by Blackmore’s Garage and driven by Roderick Donald McLean, a mechanic, was proceeding along Norton Road, towards Hamilton, and a second vehicle, driven by Max Walter Kerns, of Penrose, was coming out of Rosstrevor Street when the accident occurred. The impaot was severe and McLean’s car had the running board and mudguard on the left side torn off and the panelling crushed. Kern’s vehicle escaped with a damaged mudguard. Korns escaped injury, but McLean was slightly cut by flying glass. CAR CRASHES INTO CULVERT. MISHAP NEAR’ TAUPIRL Six people experienced a miraculous escape from injury when the car hi which they were travelling left the road, and after crashing through a fence came to rest on its side at the bottom of a deep culvert, between Iluntly and Tauplri, on Saturday afternoon. The car, which was owned and driven by Mr C. M. Gieeson, of Taupiri, was a new closed-in five seatcr model. The radiator of tlie car was stove in by the force of the impact, as the car struck a guard post rail. The front bumper was smashed and the headlights ruined. Considerable difficulty was experienced in extricating the car from its position. The culvert is situated at the side of a straight stretch of -tarsealed road and it was singularly unfortunate that the car left the road at this point.