Motoring Accidents

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 7

Motoring Accidents

CARS COLLIDE.

ACCIDENT AT KARAPIRO. OCCUPANTS’ MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. (Special to Times.) CAMBRIDGE, Thursday. About 3.30 p.m. yesterday, a serious motor accident occurred on the main highway at Karapiro, as the result of which two cars were badly wrecked, one going over a bank. Nio one was seriously injured. One of the cars, driven by Lawrence Wilfred Holdaway, Hamilton, with live other occupants, was travelling towards Cambridge, while -the other vehicle, an Eissex sedan, driven by Verney Corner, of Mt. Eden, was travelling towards Rotorua. Corner was accompanied by his wife. The collision, a violent one, occurred on the same curve that was the scene of a fatality in January, 1933, when two motor cyclists were killedYesterday, when the collision (occurred, l-loldaway’s car ran over the side of the road and, down a bank, but the occupants escaped with minor cuts and bruises. The front right wheel of Corner’s car was smashed.

TURNED OVER AND OVER. CONDITION OF THE INJURED. {By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) NELSON, Wednesday. In connection with the accident to the service car on Hope Saddle in which Mr George McKay and Miss P. H. Kite ■sustained injuries to which they later succumbed, it is stated that the car, a large open model, left Nelson at 1 a.m. While on Hope Saddle the car skidded in loose metal on a sharp bend, and left the road. It plunged down a bank, turning over and over, and the six occupants were thrown out before it came to rest upside down at the bottom of a gully. Although he was Injured, Mr W. Lynch decided to seek assistance. After crawling back to the road he walked to Glenhope, where he knew the nearest- telephone to be. Miss Kite, a cook employed at the boarding house at Lake Rotoroa, died before the hospital was reached. Mr McKay, whose death occurred in the evening, was employed on a dredge at Murchison. All the injured are progressing satisfactorily. The fourth of the Injured, Mr Lynch, was not admitted to the hospital.

Inquest Opened.

An inquest concerning the two deaths was opened before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., coroner. The inquiry was adjourned after evidence of identification had been given. M CONDITION OF INJURED. - MAKING GOOD PROGRESS. (By Telegrapft.—Fress Association.) NELSON, Thursday. Those Injured in the motor accident at Hope Saddle on Christmas Day are making satisfactory progress. The motor was not one of Spiers’ regular service cars, but a smaller car used on special occasions. STRUCK BY CAR. DRIVER DID NOT STOP. AUCKLAND, Thursday. Struck by a motor-car which did not stop, Mr Bernard Austin Schroder, aged 37, married, was knocked from the bicycle he was riding. The cyclist suffered concussion and severe laceration to a knee. MISHAP ON TRACK. RACING CYCLIST HURT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Lionel Radford, a prominent racing cyclist, met with an accident yesterday while competing in a-three-mile race at the Little River annual sports, and sustained head injuries. Radford was riding fast in the second lap, and, helped by a slight grade, was at top speed, when a Maori, Peter Taylor, stepped out on the track.

An olTicial pulled him hack, but not quickly enough, Radl'ord knocking him down. Taylor received head injuries. Radford was sent lo hospital, where his condition is satisfactory.