MOTORIST KILLED.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 11

MOTORIST KILLED.

CAR FALLS OVER BANK. OTHER OCCUPANTS INJURED. (r-RESS ASSOCIATION aZLEOaAM.) WELLINGTON, Juno. 20. About 2 -o'clock this moniing a motor-car lounged over a bank on tho Salamanca road, near the Kelburn tramway bridge. A young man named Macintyro was killed. Jack' King, Webb street, was injured internally, and Mrs King was injured in the back. A man named Helper had Ids noso broken. All tho injured are suffering from shock.

Tho residents of Salamanca road wcro aroused, by Mrs King, and oh-hurrying down the road found the cur capsized, with two ' men'inside. Four rescuers lifted the car and extricated Mac.intyro, who was dead. King was unconscious. A doctor, the police, and the ambulance were 'called';' the rescuers in the meantime being unable to:do moro than shield the injured from the rain. Helper stated that the car was moving'slowly,' as' there was no light at the corner. Ho did not-know, how the accident happened. The ■party had spent the evening -at a house at Kelburn. '- ' * ■

The victim of .'the accident, Thomas Campbell Macintyre, was a single man, aged 29, an ■architect's draughtsman, who resided at Lower Hutt. The party had been attending an evening at Kel-. burn, at which 14 were present. Deceased,- with three. others, left about 2 a.m. in a three-seatcr car, and the accident occurred after the ear had travelled about 100 yards. . • It appears,' from : the wheel-marks, ■that the car got. over too far into the water-table under' the tramway bridge on the right-hand'side of a narrow road, which is about six yards wide. It then sheered off to the left side, going overthe bank 15 yards away, dropping and overturning down a 15 foot bank on to a private road below.',".

Th'o other oeeupants of the car-are still in hospital, Mr King with a fractured pelvis.

"The night was dark, and the. road, which is steep, was wet and slippery. Nothing to shed light on the cause of the car going over, the bank was elicited at the inquest which was opened to-day. It was stated that deceased, who was at the wheel, was not a licensed driver. One theory, which is supported by a photograph of the. road showing wheelmarks, is that the wheels of the car were jammed in the. water table on the hill (the safe) side of" the road and Macintyre, in endeavouring to extricate the car, pulled too much to the- right. The car; when clear of the rut, shot across the road and skidded on .the .slippery surface to the bank before it could *be righted. Macintyre must have been killed instantaneously. Tho others are grossing favourably. , . .