ROAD PERILS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 5

ROAD PERILS

ACCIDENTS IN BOTH ISLANDS. WOMAN KILLED. FATALITY NEAR CHRISTCHURCH. tBY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONCHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 15. Charlotte. Jane lorrens, a married woman, who resided in Christchurch, died m hospital to-nignt as tlie result of concussion and shock due to a motor-car in which she was riding overturning. The car, which was being driven by Mrs James Murphy, of Fend a i ton, skidded on some loose shingle on the road between Lincoln and Dadbrooks. It became unmanageable and overturned. The three occupants were thrown out. Two escaped injury, but Mrs Torrens was hurt as described and died half an hour after admission to the hospital. MOTOR-CAR DROPS INTO GULLY. GREYMOUTH, Dec. 15. A motor accident occurred at a dangerous bend of the road from Greymoutli to Omoto about 5 p.m. to-day. A car containing five -* met another when ascending the hill and getting on the outer edge, struck the culvert and somersaulted twice into a gully 40ft. deep, stopping with the wheels uppermost. The driver was pinned beneath the car, but the others were thrown clear. William Fisher, senior, and Miss O’Brien each had a rib fracture'd, Mrs Fisher and William Fisher junr. (the driver) suffered from shock, and the fifth, man, named Woods, escaped. The ear was badly damaged. ACCIDENT NEAR WAIHI.

v , , ' WAIHI, Dec. 15. yesterday afternoon a motor-car, as the result of running up a bank wtfiile descending the steep road leading to Waikino, turned a complete somersault. Two of the occupants, Mrs F. Kinsella and her little son, aged two years, were seriously injured, tlie former sustaining a broken leg and the latter having his eye torn out and his face and neck severely gashed. The driver, F. Kinsella, was badly bruised. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. MASTERTON, Dec. 15. As a result of colliding with a motorcar yesterday. T. Allsworth, a telephone 'inesman, of Mastevton, who. was riding a motor-cycle, had a leg broken.