MOTOR MISHAPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 7

MOTOR MISHAPS.

CAR TOPPLES OVER,A BANK.

TWO MEN INJURED,

'By Tolagranli,—Press Association.)

Chrlstohurch,'January 27. A perious motor-ear accident occurred on the Little Rivor and Akoiroa Road, between,?*) pnd 11 o'clock this- morning. A car, containing Mr. Herbert" I'oaroo (a, well-known Christcliurch builder and a member of the Tramway Board), Mrs Pcarce and child, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Pengally.and two children, was aliout a mile from the hill-top when the engine suddenly stopped. The brakes failed to act, and the car ran I>ack and went over a bank. Fortunately the fall was broken by a clump of native shrubs. A party of grass-seeders witnessed the mishap, and went to tho assistance of the party. They extricated tho occupants, who were pinned under the car, and, with the help of some motor, cyclists, removed them to the Hill-top Hotel, where they wero attended to bv Dr. Cantrell, of Akaroa, who had been telephoned for. Mr. Pcarce is suffering from a fractured shoulder. Mr. Pengally has a fractured arm and n broken elbow. ' 'wound Po l r<, ° receiy«l a npsty goalp Mrs. Pengally and the three children'i were unhurt, but are suffering from shock. All are returning to town this evening. •■ ■■ CAR OyE.ft A BANK. ' • '" CANON MACMURRAY INJURED. (By Telcgraph.-PreM Association.) . ' J ' i; Nelsqnujanuarv 27. A motor-air accident See.urred at Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon, Dr. Johnston and Canon Mac Murray, of Auckland, being slightly hurt. The car went, pver a bank, and. the occupants, were t iroiTO out. Canon Mac Murray fell into the river, and >vas rendered unconscious. Uowas. rescued, Dr. Johnston' was slightly bruised, Canon Mac Murray is suffering from shock; and will not be about again for "a few daya. FATAL AFFAIR'AT FORTROSE. . FURTHER PARTICULARS. (By Telegraph—l>rc66 Association,) _ j ■ . i'nvercargill, January 27, ■in connection with the motor-car fatality, it appears that on Sunday morning, Bartholomew Lynch, traveller for J, g! Ward , and Co., in - company iyith Jas. Macintosh, of thp' spine firni, was crossing a narrow bridgo in the Fortroso district, when the car went pver' and' cap., sized in the _bed of the creek', ten feet [ below. . Macintosh escaped with a shakj ing, but Lynch, exclaiming, "I'm done," expired.- . Deceased' was aged 35 years, lie leaves ft widow and one child. A DROP INTO A CREEK, DANGERS OF MOONLIGHT DRIVING. A serious accident occurred ; at the foot of Jindern Gap six miles from Albury, (JanuSy 18) ' 011 Satur(ia y night, < . Mr.Jomes Colquhoun, sen., a well-known lllverina,wheat buyer, was returning to Albury from Jindera in a motor-car; driven by James A. Davoy, o traveller in tho ? oniploy. ;Tlie car had almost completed : tho descent of the Gap, -which' is fairly steen. In the moonlight the shadows oonfused the driver, it is surmised, as in-, stead of the car turning when "the foot of the Gap was reached, it went' straight -oi into the cre"k, falling', several feet* The bank P WM cmbe^,cd "ftha opposite l Both occupants were hurled frpm their seats, Mr; Colquhoun's head• struck the front rail of tho cars hood, severing hig ' , enr ear - The wound no- i cessitated .the insert™ of. 20 pitches, His i hands wfere olso badly cut on the glass * Wind-break, which_wns ; -shattered, and he < body'"' bruisc-3 on the Uga and : n ,°T s and his hands ' m? K as ' to tho liones. The ,car waa badly damaged. ' i