STANDING BY CAR

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21183, 5 August 1940, Page 5

STANDING BY CAR

YOUNQ MAN KILLED L HIT BY PASSING VEHICLE COMPANION SERIOUSLY HURT (By Telegraph.—special to Times) WHANGAREI, Sunday One man was killed and another seriously injured when they were struck by a motor-car at Maungatapere in the early hours of yesterday morning. The victims were:— Killed Mr George Alfred Lyddiard, aged 21, single, of Titoki. Injured Mr Peter Wellington, of Maungatapere; concussion and other injuries; condition serious. Mr Lyddiard and Mr Wellington were returning to Maungatapere in Mr Wellington’s car, which at the time of the accident had stopped outside the Maungatapere store. Mr | Wellington was cranking the car and j Mr Lyddiard was at the side when a car driven by Mr Albert Julius Peterson, farmer, of Whatitiri, who also was returning from Whangarei, struck the back of the stationary car. The stationary car was carried some distance along the road, and Mr Lyddiard was thrown aside. Mr Wellington was taken to the Whangarei Hospital. An inquest was opened yesterday by the district coroner, Mr G. H. Morrish, and adjourned after evidence of identification had been taken. TUNNELLER KILLED WAIROA-GISBORNE LINE (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) GISBORNE, Sunday Injuries which later proved fatal were suffered by a tunneller, Mr i Peter Martinac, when he was crushed between two sets of steel frames while working on the No. 6 tunnel of the Wairoa-Gisborne railway. The injured man was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital, where he died yesterday. NIGHT OF PAIN PINNED TO FLOOR-BOARDS TREE PIERCES WINDSCREEN (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) OHAKUNE, Sunday Pinned head downward to the j floor-boards of his overturned motor- j car, and suffering from injuries that . included a fractured leg, Mr Fraser Scott, farmer, Raetihi, underwent an agonising experience throughout the | greater part of a night before he was I admitted to Raetihi Hospital. Mr Scott, with a companion, Mrj Warren Tahana, was motoring to his | home, about 12 miles from Raetihi, and when within about two miles of | his home the car ran off the narrow i road and overturned. The trunk of a tree pierced the windscreen and i pinned Mr Scott’s legs to the floor- ' boards, with the result that he hung head downward. His companion did not recover consciousness for a long time, and when he did he was unable to assist Mr Scott. Assistance was sought from a farmhouse in the vicinity, but it took a party from Raetihi more than two hours to free Mr Scott from the wreckage of the car.