MOTOR CAPSIZES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 10

MOTOR CAPSIZES

ONE PERSON KILLED, ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE BY I'ELEGBXI’H.—J’BESS ASSOCIATION Tauranga, December 4. A motor-car fatality occurred about three o’clock this afternoon about nine miles from Tauranga on the TauraugaWaihi road. It appears that Mr. Leslie Allan Cooper, employed by the borough hydro-electric station, McLaren’s Falls, with his wife and two children, drove to Waikiuo yesterday to bring Mrs. Cooper’s parents,.Mr. and Mrs. John Odium, of Waikino, across for the Christmas. The party were returning today, and when they reached the point stated the car apparently swerved, bit the bank and capsized. Mr. Cooper, who was driving, was thrown out through the windscreen and Mrs. Cooper was also thrown clear. The children also escaped uninjured. But Mr. Odium was picked up dead and Mrs. Odium -was found seriously injured. A passing motor-car ariven by Mr. Hugo Dickson came upon the party and found Mr. Odium and the Cooper’s clear of the car, but Mrs. Odium and the two Cooper children still mixed up in the wrecked hood. With the assistance of some men who arrived almost simultaneously from the other direction in a motor lorry, the overturned car was lifted clear. The children were alright, but Mrs. Odium was -found to be’ seriously injured and was brought by Mr. Dickson to the Tauranga hospital and found to be suffering from a fractured skull, a broken leg, and internal injuries. Her condition is critical. The body of Mr. Odium was brought into Tauranga later.