PEDESTRIAN DIES OF INJURIES: HIT BY MOTOR CYCLE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 83, 6 May 1949, Page 5

PEDESTRIAN DIES OF INJURIES: HIT BY MOTOR CYCLE

Struck by a motor cycle as he was walking across the road at Edgecumbe about 6.15 on Wednesday evening, Mr HENRY WALLACE (Ted) WARD, about 60, manager of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company’s garage, died in hospital at 1.45 yesterday morning. The motor cyclist, Mr NORMAN SYDNEY ANDREWS, 21, of Edgecumbe, is in hospital with a broken left arm and facial cuts and abrasions. Both Mr Ward’s arms were broken, and he is reported to have suffered spinal injuries.

Scene of the accident was near the Edgecumbe school dental clinic. Mr and Mrs B. Jones had got their car ditched not far from, and on the other side of the road from, Mr Ward's place, and Mr Ward had gone to get a plank, which he was bringing back across tne road when the cycle hit him. Eye-witnesses say he had the plank in one hand and a .torch in the other, and* that the cycle came from the direction of Thornton.

First to reach'the injured men was. Miss Bernice Starnes, who came from her home nearby when she heard Mr Andrews calling for help. He was sitting about four yai.is from his mangled bicycle, beside which Mr Ward was lying.

Starnes went back for her father, Rev J. H. Starnes, Mr Jones, who had been working under his car when the accident occurred, went for other help. Mr Ward was rushed to hospital in Mr Starnes’s car, and Mr AncL lews was taken in later by his parents in their own car.