A SERIOUS ACCIDENT

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1921, Page 1

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT

SEVERAL INJURED. | [IV TiaiCC;!AIM! TICK PI!HRS ASSOCIATION'] | AUCKLAND, .March o. There has boon ;i serious accident to r chanb'mo lioro. Tito vehicle dropped about loft, through a bridge colle.psillg ami subsided into the mud. Only a low foot of the voliiclo wore above water. A passage bad to bo out, in the top of the canvas cover through which the several passengers assisted, escaped. About two-thirds of the bridge, which was a small wooden structure was carried away. The < li’amlianc crashed through stern lirst. The injured persons were attended to by a medical man who arrived early. Later on. one of them, Aliss AL Wilson died at the Hospital. Aliss Willson belongs to Tirangi. She was pinned under water, she was restored to consciousness when rescued, after an hours’ treatment, but relapsed while unconscious in th 0 'Hos- | it a I and litter succumbed. W. Shaw sustained severe internal injuries and was bruised on tile head, md suffers from shock. Al>s ALmlalc got a broken arm, hoodies shock .and abrasions. Several others are suffering from diock. FrRTHF.It DETAILS. AUCKLAND, March o. As far as can be ascertained to-dav, very few of the occupants of the moor bu.s which crashed through the iridgp yesterday, escaped injury. AI iss i(. W. Wilson, who died, sustained inertial injuries. Her father (Mil .T. ( Vilson) had a hone in his leg broken.

There arc throe persons in hospital: W. Shawl., who is suffering from internal injuries and shock ; Mrs Mardijie, ; hrok' !! arm and shock; and 'Richard ; l’aget, outs and abrasions. They are * reported to lie progressing favourably. 1 “No fewer than fifteen of the passengers sustained injuries,'’ was the I statement made by Constable Douglas, when interviewed. ‘The injuries of ; those not-’taken to the hospital were not of a very serious nature, although in the rase of one man, who elected to he taken home instead of going to hospital, the hone in his leg had been fractured. There were a variety of . knocks and bruises sustained by other sufferers.” j When Constable Douglas arrived on I the scene' about. 9.30 a.m., the passengers were lying on the banks of the ereek and on the roadside, receiving medical attention. Those in the charbane were all either related to each other or were friends of the party, hav- ; mg been gathered together for a picnic hv the proprietors of the motor car, and they resided in New Lynn or TiUrangi.