MOTORING ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 162, 5 April 1921, Page 6

MOTORING ACCIDENT

CAR FALLS OVER CLIFF ON AKAROA ROAD

SIX OCCUPANTS INJURED

By Telejraph—Press Association. Christchurch, April 4.

A party of motorists returning from Chain's Bay to 'Christchurch .met with an accident on Akaroa Road, near (lie hill top, on Saturday night. The car contained six passengers, and when coming up the Barry’s Bay Hill the lights suddenly failed, and the car fell over a cliff about 100 ft. high. The occupants were thrown tn all directions, and all were more or loss injured. Two of the party managed to reach the hotel at the hill top, and medical aid was obtained from Akaroa and an ambulance from Christchurch. The occupants of the car were: Forbe* Blackmore (26), residing in Shrewsbury Street, a traveller for Adams Ltd., motorcar proprietors, who was driving the car; Bertram Edwards, of the New Brighton Hotel, son of the late M. Edwards, a well-known trotting trainer; Norman Bing, who was on holiday from Wellington, where he is employed at Banks! Commercial College; Duncan Brown, of Christchurch, architect: George Storey, comedian with the Walter George Sunchine Players Company, now appearing at the Opera House, and Mrs. Storey,, wife of George Storey, who is known on the- stage as Dulcie Milner. The car left the road at a fairly safe point, where there is no bend or obstruction, and it is presumed that it ran back as the driver was pulling up to look to his lights. The car crashed through a wire fence close to the road, • ami rolled over sideways until it reached the bottom. It. was so, badly smashed that, probably it will have to be dismantled before it can be hauled back to the road., On viewing the wreckage; it can be seen that the party escaped more serious injuries by n miracle. All the occupants were stunned, and remained unconscious for some time. Mr. Storey had a leg fractured, and suffered other severe injuries, the full extent of which is yet unknown. Mr. Edwards had a collarbone broken, and Mr. Blackmore was badly cut on’the thigh. The three others were considerably bruised and shaken.