FATAL COLLISION

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 8

FATAL COLLISION

Car and Motor-cycle

PILLION-RIDER KILLED

Young Wellington Woman

Dominion Special Service.

Palmerston Noitli. January 2.

As the'result of a collision between a motor-cycle and a ear on a bend near Ranglotu on the Foxton-Welllngton highway shortly before 5.30 to-night, Miss Dorothy Smith, aged about 23 years, of Dixon Street, Wellington, was fatally injured, and Charles Edward Burt, of 3 Wakefield Street, Lower Hutt, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital suffering from a fractured left thigh, shock and abrasions. ,

The ear was driven by a young man named Curtis, of 63 Wood Street. He was accompanied by his mother and two women passengers, who escaped with minor cuts. Mr. Burt was riding his motor-cycle back to Wellington with Miss Dixon as a pillion passenger, and the car was going toward Palmerston North. The car was turned over into a ditch at the side of the road and was extensively damaged. | Air. Burt was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition. Afiss Smith received a severe fracture of the skull.