MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16149, 1 March 1918, Page 7

MOTOR ACCIDENT.

A SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. DISASTER AT END OF HOLIDAY TOUE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, February 28. After a month's holiday motor tour through the heart of the North Island, Messrs Pudsey (Petone) and Crawford (Lower Hutt) with their respective wives and three children, met with a serious accident on the Ilimutakas yesterday afternoon. Near tho top of the range, Mr Crawford, who was driving, essayed to pass a big motor lorry which was drawn up near the hillside. Unfortunately, the space left was not sufficient tor the passenger car, and it went over the hill, wiiich at that point is very steep. Mr Pudsey was tho only absentee. He had left the car a few moments previously to get a drink of water. As the car went over one of the girls jumped out and escaped unhurt. Mr Crawford also jumped out, and was comparatively uninjured. The other four (Mrs Pudsey and Mrs Crawford and two children) went with the car, which, after a dreadful fall of about thirty-five yards, struck a log and turned completely ovei, beinfj smashed to pieces. " , Mrs Crawford and the children were thrown out during the car's headlong flight. Mrs Pudsey kept her seat until the car stopped, about fifty yards from the brow of the hill, when she was thrown out with great violence. She was xxnconscious when picked up. Subsequently it was found that she had sustained serious injuries to one of her shoulders, besides minor bruises and shock. One of the girls received serious injuries to the leg. there being a gaping wound from knee to ankle. Mrs Crawford suffered a broken wrist besides minor injuries, and tho boy was badly bruised about the head and other parts of the body. The sufferers vrcro brought to the brow of the hill by rcscuo parties, and taken to the Grcytown hospital, where