FATAL INJURIES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 6

FATAL INJURIES

TERRIBLE BURNS SUSTAINED

WHEN, MOTOR CAR OVERTURNS.

SYDNEY, September 19,

Richard Go:\st, aged 32, a commercial traveller, of Goulburn, New South Wales, suffered burns which caused his death when his car overturned near RobertsoWland burst into flames. He w,as pinned’' underneath the car, and his legs were practically burned from his body before help arrived. He remained conscious throughout, and showed amazing fortitude, smoking cigarettes' find talking. He was taken to a hospital, where lie died early on the following morning.

. Mr Gorst, who was the only occupant !of tl> ? single-seater car, swerved from J the road at a bend and ran down an j embankment. The bend was not a sharp one, nor was the embankment very steep. From car. tracks in the ! grass it was presumed that something | had gone wrong with the steering gear, j Mr Gorst had almost gained control of bii machine again and directed it toward the road, when one of the whee.s struck a rock, and it overturned. Petrol from the tank, which was immediatejly above the' engine, poured over the {engine, and the machine burst into flames. [ Doctors at the hospital said that it was the most terrible case that they had attended. Mr Gorst did not lose consciousness* until he died. The medical opinion was that Mr Gorst’s spine had been broken, either in the accident or during his frantic struggles to free himself, and' the consequent paralysing of the lower parts of his body had alleviated' to some extent the agonising . pain. Mr Gorst. left a wife and a ten-months-old child. *