MOTOR ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1933, Page 5

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

FATALITY OCCURS,; • IN TARANAKI

■SEVERAL WEEK-END MISHAPS

(Per PTe&* Association, Copyright)

NEW PYLMOUTH, December 25,

With the Toads ' 'alive with tourist holiday traffic, \qver a' dozen.; motor accidents occur? 4% i^ara^ajti.. t _d : .s» tvict V at., the vw6ek4p|^ ;: One fatal - andA several serious injuries. '.-A; pea*. ' -failed . to negotiate : the railway overhead bridge ‘hear Lepperton Junction, crashed through the', railing and fell' thirty feet -to the railway line/ (Patrick Newtpn,. aged. •,24,.'.. a’ Jorry : Waikanae’, nenr Otaki, was pinned under the. wreckage." • He ■ was so 'seriously injured that he died on Saturday evening shortly after admission- to the hospital. ■ .The. driver ■of the 1 car, .the only other occupant, James Baxter! ai sawmill,er, of .-Wrikanae,d,suffered',- 'abrasions -.and His condition;4s satisfactory. , iSininionds- audvhis: sister, of f Cape tEgmtoht' .' lighthouse,- 1 ' aV mot vir cyclist and ‘'"pillion;'rider,, on Saturday collided. P Tvitlp; ; a/['' lorry;!: • Sininiqnds,who. .suffered,,’a.... fractured .skull .and,pa i, broken, right-' arm; lis jh hospital • Jm-4v ! serious ;'etjiidi|ipn.;i. '’This " fveriingr/phis; •I Wotnditiori'. -.t'was (unchanged’. His • sister I received ian ' injury to ,the v .right-v. arm ; biit' f her poncUtion • is;. satisfactory.; '( •-Benjamin/ Orr/pdf *' ’ Otordhanga’. y a« ! pAwakinoi’ l *'Buffered (_( double" misfor- '< tune. ! p : Th^' v ’tyre’ ■of ;'his 'motor;- .- cycle . burst and he was "thrown to the' to" cl | dazed ibyP the '! full.;: •' He ■ staggereo \ to his -feet ; and’-was,struck -by ■ a;- ! png car, suffering- a- fractured right : knee and injury \.-to the right ; shoulder;; ~ . A

.% aged wonian, Mrs'SGrflckett, .was krtorlfed i.down’.bv a • car^Jri fa . Plvmottth ' £t*eet. but was : «otj?£serfoo?l.y ininved, and was taUnu libido vaf^r 1 ; treatment. -v- k; f£g*g. Several otjiw aieeidenlssj • slight personal, injuries.,

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