THIRD MAN INJURED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3

THIRD MAN INJURED

TAUPO ROAD ACCIDENT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NAPIER, January 2,

Two men were killed and one injured as the result of a motor accident yesterday on the Napier-Taupo road.

The two killed were William Kenneth Weir, aged 30, single, Montreal Street, Christchurch, and Kenneth Samuel Mack, 199 Tinakori Road, Wellington, i

Cedric Roland Hogan, 99 Main South Road, Uppen Riccarton, Christchurch, the injured man, is in the Napier hospital. His condition is not serious.

, The three, who were meat inspectors employed by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company at Moerewa, were travelling from Napier to Taupo, and the accident happened at 6.45 p.m. yesterday while they were descending the- Turangikumu hill/ The car was being driven by Mr. Weir. Just after it passed a car going in the opposite direction it rolled in loose gravel near the edge of the road, slipped sideways, and toppled over. It turned three somersaults before landing on the road 250 feet below and then it roUed a further 50 feet before coming to rest a complete wreck. When the car first somersaulted Mr. Hogan was hurled through the roof, and tb this he owes his life. Messrs. Weir and Mack were thrown out when the car struck the road. Mr. Weir was kiUed instantly and Mr. Mack died before the arrival of a doctor.

News of the accident was .received from Tarawera by Constable D. Walden, Bay View, who, with Dr. W. D. Fitzgerald and Constable R. J. Sutherland, Port, Ahuriri, accompanied the Napier ambulance to the scene. The car was owned by Mr. Hogan, who had driven it from Napier to the summit of Turangikumu, where the party had a roadside meal. When the journey was resumed Mr. Weir took a turn at the wheel.