MOTOR SMASHES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 5

MOTOR SMASHES

FATAL RESULTS

jily Telegraph, Per Press Association

' INVERCARGILL, March 3. A shocking Accident occurred at Keiihington on Saturday afternoon when the North-bound mail train to Dunedin ran down a motor car containing Mr aiid Mrs Adams, of Rush Siding. They were on their way to town. Mrs Adams was killed outright while Mi 1 Adams was seriously injured and was subsequently brought into the Southland Hospital, where he died shortly after The car was badly smashed. As the result of a serious collision about one o’clock on Saturday at the corner of Thames Street and North Road two young men Stewart Henderson aged 17 years, and his brother Norris, aged about 22 years, residing Waikiwi, were admitted to the Southland Hospital, where Stewart succumbed to his injuries. The detnils.of the occurrence are meagre, but it appears that the brothers were riding into town on a motor cycle, one on the pillion. At the ” intersection of Thames Street and North Hoard, they apparently swerved to avoid an approaching car, and in so doing crashed headlong into a motor truck that was proceeding along the North Road. Medical atention was at once called or, ami when Dr Collins arrived he assisted in removing the younger of the boys from underneath the truck. Subsequently the injured youths were removed in the ambulance to tbe hospital in an unconscious condition. The elder brother has a fracture of the base of the skull, cuts and abrasions, and is also suffering from shock.