Serious Motor Accident

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 March 1918, Page 1

Serious Motor Accident

UNFORTUNATE END TO A HOLIDAY. After a month's holiday motor tour through the heart of the North Island as far at Eotorua, Messrs. Pudscy (watchman at the Petone AVoollen Mills), and Crawford (poultry-farmer, Dower Hutt), with their respective wives and three children (two girls and a boy), met with a serious accident on the Ilimutaka.. Mr Crawford, who was driving, essayed to pass a big motor lorry which was, drawn up at the hillside. Unfortunately, the space left was not sufficient for the passenger car, and it went over the hill, which at that point is very steep. Mr Pudscy was the only absentee. He had left the car a few moments previously to get a drink of water. As the car went over, one of the girls jumped out ;l and escaped unhurt. Mr Crawford also jumped, and was comparatively uninjured. The other four (krs Pudscy and Mrs Crawford and tho two children) went with tho car, which, after a dreadful fall of about thirty-five yards, struck a log and turned completely over', being smashed to pieces. Mrs Crawford and the children were thrown out during the car's headlong llight. Mrs Pudscy kept her seat until the car stopped, about fifty vards from the brow of the hill, when idie was thrown with great violence. ,Sho was unconscious when picked up, and subsequently it was found _ that she had sustained serious to one of her shoulders, besides minor bruises and shock. One of the girls hud received serious injuries to a leg, there being a gaping wound from the km e to the ankle. Mas Crawford sutained sv broken wrist, besides minor injuries, and the boy was badly bruised about (he head and other parts of the body. The sufferers were taken to the top of the hill by rescue parties, and taken to the Greytown Hospital, where they are undergoing treatment.