MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE
PILLION RIDER SERIOUSLY INJURED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Aug. 28.
Two motor-cyclists, William Charles Skinner and Glenelg Bartani collided head on, on the Great North Road, Avondale, to-night. Skinner sustained severe cuts on the face and Bartani had his boot torn off and received minor injuries to his foot.. Both escaped remarkably light, however, compared with Alfred James Turner, oi Avondale, who was the pillion passenger on one machine. He, was thrown heavily to the centre of the load, and. was then run over by a following motor bus. In addition to a very bad compound fracture of the right leg just above the knee,, and a dmible fracture of the same leg above the ankle, his right arm was badly broken and he sustained severe head injuries, believed to be a fracture of the skull. His right leg was amputated shortly after he was admitted to the hospital, and his condition at a late hour was critical.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1929, Page 3
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