PUKETURUA SMASH
WOMAN GRAVELY INJURED COLLISION AND CAPSIZE NEW YEAR’S EVE ACCIDENT A car collision and capsize at the Five Roads intersection, ipuketurua, on Saturday evening, was responsible for the admission to Waikato Hospital the same evening of Mrs Gladys Moana Pearce (35), of Piuketurua, in an unconscious condition and suffering from serious head injuries. Mrs Pearce was a passenger in a car driven by her husband. Mr Gilbert Alan Pearce, a farmer, who also suffered head injuries. After treatment at the hospital, however, he was able to return home. Mr Pearce was driving from his home toward Putaruru when the accident occiurred His car collided with another driven by Mr Gordon James Walker, farmer, of Te Awamutu, and turning a complete somersault, came to rest upside-down. Mr Walker was driving from Arapuni and turning into the Pukeaturua School Road at the time and neither her nor any of the passengers in his car was injured. Mr and Mrs Pearce were taken to hospital in a St. John ambulance, Mrs Pearce being admitted in a critical condition. Iter condition was still unchanged to-day and she was still unconscious.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20694, 3 January 1939, Page 6
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188PUKETURUA SMASH Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20694, 3 January 1939, Page 6
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