AUCKLAND MOTOR SMASH

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2659, 15 November 1923, Page 3

AUCKLAND MOTOR SMASH

CONSTABLE KILLED, TWO OTHERS BADLY HURT. Auckland, November 14. Constable Richard Todd, single, aged 28, stationed at. Newton, was killed between 5 and 6 o’clock this morning, at Greenwood’s corner, Epsom, as the result of a collision between a motor car in which be was a. passenger, and a Chinaman’s cart. The taxi-driver, and Harry Horden, another occupant, were taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries is not yet known. Later. The most seriously injured is Harry Horden, married, of Newton, with a fractured thigh, forearm, and jaw, and shock. The taxidriver, James Andrew Fox, received concussion and ahrasions to the shoulder, but was able <o leave the hospital this afternoon. The fourth occupant, Reginald Dnfaur, escaped injury.

The Chinese driver of the cart escaped with an injured knee. The cart received no damage except the broken projecting support, which apparently caught the motor’s mudguard. It is stated that the car was proceeding at great speed and grazed the side of the cart, the outrigged top rail of which caught the car’s hood, dragging it backward, smashing the windscreen to atoms and forcing Constable Todd on to the road. Death must have been instantaneous.