MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1932, Page 6

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

TWO DEATHS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) & AUCKLAND, January 31. Miss Paseline Stubbing, of New Lynn, who was injured in a motor cycle accident on Friday, died in the hospital. Miss Stubbing was riding on the pillion seat of a motor cycle, driven by Mr Smith, of One Tree Hill, when the cycle crashed into a telegraph pole. The condition of Smith, who also received severe head injuries, is fairly serious. •■■•itCHRISTCHURCH, January 31. Frederick Sweegland Horneman, aged 23, mechanic, employed by the Post and Telegraph Department, who lived a.t 120, Rossal Street, Merivale, was killed when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a car on the beam road, Kaiapoi, at 9 p.m. yesterday. The driver of the car, Ferderick Ellis, and also the pillion rider, Kathleen Baker, both of Kaiapoi, suffered minor injuries. All three were removed to Christchurch hospital, Hornman dying without regaining consciousness shortly after midnight. MOTOR CYCLE’ COLLISION. ONE MAN KILLED. , f NEW. PLYMOUTH, February 1. Injured in a motor cycle collision jit Inglewood yesterday afternoon, Norman Cedric Drake, aged 22, died in the "New Plymouth hospital last night. Death was the result of a badly' fractured skull. Two other cyclists Clement. Geo. Watson, 20, .and a young, man named Bilski. also had their skulls fractured, and both are in a serious condition. The collision occurred on a bridge south of Inglewood, Drake being hurled nearly forty feet from the point of impact.