MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZES
FALLS 100 FEET AND IS SMASHED TO PIECES. ; Thero was a brief reference in yesterday's Dominion to a motor accident oil the road over the llimutaka, but
no particulars wero then procurable father than that four people had been conveyed to the Groytown Hospital. It appears that after a month's tour of the North Island, a party consisting of Messrs. Pu'dsey (watchman at tho Pβtono Woollen Mills) and Crawford (poultry-farmer, Lower Hutt), with their respective wives and three children (two girls and a boy), met with a serious accident on the llimutaka between 3 and i o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Near the top of tho Rinvutaka, Mr. Crawford, who was driving, essayed to pass a big motor lorry which had drawn up at tho hillside. Unfortunately, the space left was not sufficient for tho passenger car, and it went over tho hill, which at that point is very steep. Mr. Pudsoy 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, and was comparatively uninjured. The other four (Mrs. Pudsey and Mrs. Crawford and the two children) went with the car, which, after a dreadful fall of about thirty-five yaids, struck a log and turned completely over, being 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, when she was thrown out with great violence! She was unconscious when picked up, anS subsequently it was found that she had sustained serious injuries to one of her shoulders, besides minor bruises and shook. One of the girls had received serious injuries to a leg, there being a gapmg wound from the knee to the ankle. Mrs. Crawford sustained a broken wrist, besides minor injuries, and the boy was badly bruised about the head and other parts of the body. The sufferers were brought to the top of the. hill by rescue parties and taken to the Groytown Hospital, where they are undergoing treatment. ~ The following account of the accident is given by our Featherston correspondeiit: —A motor-car driven by Mr. William Crawford, of Nai Nai, came to grief at the Rimutaka Road summit on Wednesday afternoon through going over the bank whilst allowing a motor-wagon to pass by. The driver, with a young lady and another friend, were out of the car at the time. Mrs. Crawford sustained concussion of the brain, and a broken collarbone, whilst Mrs. Pudsey also suffered from concussion, and had a wrist broken. Miss Blanche Pudsey was injured in a leg, and Walter Pudsey received injuries to his face. The driver of a motor-car from Wellington side eventually assistpd to convey the sufferers to the Greytown Hospital. •
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 6
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471MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 6
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