TWO BAD COLLISIONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1880, 14 October 1913, Page 8

TWO BAD COLLISIONS.

ON SOUTHERN ROADS. HICH MOTOR SPEEDS & RESULT. (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) Timaru, October 13. Two bad collisions between motorcycles and motor-cars occurred yesterday and to-day 011 the same road, and not far from cach other. On Sunday Mr. H,. Berti, licensee of the Crown Hotel, Timaru, while motoring southwards with 'his wife and niece and a driver, was met, near Otaio, by two motor cyclists from Oamaru, named Dunlop and Davies, going at a great pace. The former, who was in tho Jead, seemed to lose control of his macnine, and ran into the bonnet of the car. He was thrown through the wind screen, and landed in a heap on tno back seat between the two women. He sustained a severo wound in the forehead. Sir. Berti turned back, and brought him to a private hospital in his car, which was damaged. The cycle was crumpled 'up. In the second accident, which happened at 2 o'clock this morning, near Makiltihi, Davies, who was Dunlop's mate on Sunday, was being motored back to Oamaru (he was too unnerved to cycle back), when a motor cyclist, proceeding at great speed, without a light, collided with the side of the car. The rider, Mulligan, a hairdresser of Oamaru, had his leg broken in two or three places, his right arm lacerated, and also sustained concussion of the brain. The car turned, and brought him to Timaru Hospital. He is still unconscious, and his condition is precarious.