TEN MOTOR SMASHES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1930, Page 6

TEN MOTOR SMASHES

IN AND ABOUT NEW PLYMOUTH. ~~ v/v v . i . vßy Telegraph—Press Association). ■jXt " -2K.V . NEW PLYMOUTH, May 25. Ten motor smashes of varying degrees of severity occurred-dll- New Plymouth and district tarring the week-end.- One cause fvais |he. heavy motor traffic occasioned by the seventeen thousand people attending ■ the British Rugby match. e When a car collided withia'stationary car, Norman .Qc&ura, t&te'U'leadfer of a dance orchestra, received a severely fractured skull, while Miss Gwen Riley, aged 18, received "concussion and shock. Two other girls passengers also received concussion and shock. Both bf the cars \yere badly smashed. * ■ “

Jn another case a light car, driven by D. C. Candish, and a heavier one driven by J. H. Moody collided at an intersection. The light car landed upside down on the footpath', and the two occupants miraculously escaped with only slight cuts. A two-year-old child, Lester Gates, received severe heacl injuries iii-a collision at Tariki. He is in the hospital, and is improving. Several other accidents are reported, but the personal injuries are only slight. A heavy ear belonging to F. P. Grundy, was removed from the street in ir nt of nis garage, and late last ni drt it was found on the Alain South R ;ad, 15 miles avvay, completely burn-

RUNAWAY CAR

AUCKLAND, May 25

A motor-car ran away in Archhill and crashed over a ten foot bank. A woman and three children, who were in the car, were injured, one of them, Ronald Dean, aged 18 months, is in the hospital in a serious condition. Airs Deiin and children were waiting in. the car for Air Dean to drive, when evidently, one of the children released the brakes. The car ran away and was wrecked.