MOTORS COLLIDE

Evening Star, Issue 19794, 18 February 1928, Page 11

MOTORS COLLIDE

SEVERAL INJURES [Pes United Press Association.] MASTERTON, February 18. A serious motor accident happened in Queon street shortly after 7 o’clock this morning, when a Slack and White delivery van from Wellington collided with Kenneth Aplin’s motor lorry, which was conveying freezing works employees to Waingawa. Aplin’s lorry had proceeded! as far as the convent when the Black and White bus approached from the south. There was no obstruction on the road other than a milk cart, which was standing in close to the kerb. The right hub of the cap of the Black and .White Ins struck the lorry on the step, the Wellington bus turning over. The hood portion of the lorry jvas badly smashed, and many of the occupants injured. Frank Shackleton’s . skull was fractured; Frank Marsh received injuries to his shoulder; William Hugh Long injuries to his spine; Hugh Carswell cuts and bruises. They were all removed to the hospital. Shackleton’s condition is serious. Charles M'AHstcr and Harry Simpson received minor injuries. Louis Framayne, driver of the Wellington bus, received slight injuries to his ribs, but was all right after being bandaged. Mrs M. Y. Bates, of tho Upper Hutt, who was travelling in the bus to Masterton, received minor cuts on the head and leg from the flying glass ot the windscreen. Work has been suspended for the day at the Waingawa works, the butchers remaining in town, and making anxious inquiries about their comrades in hospital.