CHAPTER OF CAR MISHAPS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 3, 27 September 1937, Page 6

CHAPTER OF CAR MISHAPS

No Serious Injuries to Occupants

A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE

A commercial traveller was pinned in his car when it left the road At Opapa on Thursdqy afternoon while travelling towards Hastings. The road was wet at the time and apparently the car skidded and toppled into a dip, where it lay facing the way it had come. The occupant was pinned in a painful position, with his rjght arm wedged between an open door and the body of the car. Passing motorists could see the car, but not the driver. Fortnnately, however, a passing insurance agent made a closer inspeetion and found the driver, whose na/me could not be aseertained, in a semi-conscious eondition. Once he had been extricated it was found that he had suffered no serioils injuTy, although the pain he had been in had rendered him paytly unconscions. He was conveyed northwards by a passing truck. Another case of a car capsiziHg over a bank occurred shortly before nine o'clock on Friday evening, when a car conveying four prpminent Napier residehts to the Rugby Test match at Auckland left the road near the Oruanui turn-ofl? on the main Napier-Puta-ruru road and capsized over a six-foot bank., The car was not damaged and the occupants escaped uninjured. The car was being driven to Auckland by Mr. L. Harris, of Napier/ a member of the management committee of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union. With him were Messrs. W. Anderson, secretary of the Rugby Union, N. A. McKenzie, sole Rugby selector for Hawke's Bay, and Stewart' McKenzie, a Hawke's Bay Rugby representative and a son of Mr. N. A. McKenzie. The cAr was lifted back on to, the road by a breakdown car from Taupo, aQd the party then resumed the journey to Auckland. Miss Hughes, who was injured in a collision between a motor-car in whicb she was a passenger and the mid-day train at the Eastbourne street railway crossing in Hastings on Saturday afternoon, was reported. this morning to bo showing ioiprovement and her eondition is regarded* as generally satisfaetoxy. Her injuries consist of a fractured wrist, injury to a leg and facial wounds. Passengers in a motor-car driven, by Mr. Norlnan Wano, of Te Haroto, received minor injuries in fin accidfent at Clive on Saturday afternoon. They received treatment at the Napier . Publie Hospital, but were later discharged, The car was being driven acr.oss the Clive bridge in the direction of Hastings when it .skidded on the sli^pery surface of the south end of the bridge. The driver lost control, and the vehiele crashed into a power pole opposite the police station, the passengers being slightly injured by "flying glass.