A SHOCKING TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1927, Page 4

A SHOCKING TRAGEDY

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

HAMILTON, Oet. 16. i A shocking accident, resulting in a - double fatality occurred at Hillerest 5 Hamilton, at 6.39 p.m. on Saturday, - when a large limousine car, driven by l John Blair, aged 19, a motor mechanic ■ struck a light motor cycle, killing two I moil who wore on the cycle. Both of > these received frightful injuries, being t mutilated almost beyond recognition. i The dead men are—John AVard, aged • 27 years, an employee of the Matangi ■, Glaxo Factory. His parents reside at Henderson. J Walter Thornton Reynolds, aged 25, years, another employee of the Afntangi Glaxo Factory, and the son of ATr John Reynolds, of Rotorua. The car driver, Blair, was accompanied by his mother, but neither sustained any injuries, only slight damage being done to the vehicles, despite the fatal nature of the accident. Both of the men on tho motor cycle had fractured skulls, broken legs, deep wounds on the body and many superficial injuries. The car was proceeding into Hamilton when the collision took place at the corner of Cambridge Road with the Alain HamiltonThames roads, the motor-cycle being struck in front on the right- side of the front mudguard of tho car. John Ward, the rider, was killed instantly, and Reynolds, the pillion passenger, was hurled five yards up a bank on the side of the road, succumbing to terrible injuries 11 hours after his admission to the Waikato Hospital.