CAR COLLISION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 January 1940, Page 5

CAR COLLISION

FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM INJURY BOY CUT BY GLASS Serious injury was escaped by two cnr loads of people., one from Rotorua. and one from Tauranga,, when they met almost liead-on rounding a corner on the Te Puke-Rotorua road 14 miles from Te. Puke on Sunday morning. A saloon car driven by Mr V. Hughes, of Rotorua, was coming in the direction of Tc Puke, when the -collision occurred with a touring car driven by Mr Edwin King, of ■Cambridge Road, Tauranga. The fronts of both cars Mere extensively damaged, and a small boy in Mr Hughes' car was gashed on sides of the neck with glass fmm the windscreen when lie was .jerked forward with the impact. Mr King's mother, who was seated in the front of his ear, also struck her head on the windscreen, and received a severe bump, and a small boy in their car also received slight injuries to his mouth. Mrs King and the boy were taken back to Tauranga in the morning bus from Rotorua, which passed shortly after the accident. Dr S. H. Hay, of Rotorua, who passed after the bus had left the scene of the accident, attended the boy in Mr Hughes' car, and found the cuts were not as serious as they appeared.. The cars were later towed to Rotorua and Tauranga.