CAR COLLIDES WITH MOTOR CYCLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3705, 18 October 1927, Page 2

CAR COLLIDES WITH MOTOR CYCLE.

DOUBLE FATALITY AT HAMILTON.

Hamilton, October 16.

A shocking accident, resulting in a double fatality, occurred at Hillcrest, Hamilton, at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, When a lagre limousine driven by John Blair, aged 19, a motor mechanic, struck a light mo-tor-cycle, killing two men. Both received frightful injuries, being mutilated almost beyond recognition. The dead men are:— '

John Ward, aged 27, employee of the Matangi Glaxo factory. His parents reside at Henderson. Walter Thornton Reynolds, aged 25, also an employee of the Matangi Glaxo factory, and son of Mr. John Reynolds, of Rotorua. The car driver was accompanied by his mother, but neither sustained injuries, only slight damage being done to the vehicles, despite the fatal nature of the accident. Both men on the motor cycle had fractured skulls, broken right legs, deep wounds in the body, and many superficial injuries. The car was proceeding into Hamilton when the collision took place at the corner of the Cambridge Road and the Main Hamilton —Thames Road, the motor cycle being struck on the front and right side by the front mudguard of the car. John Ward, the rider, was killed instantly, and Reynolds, the pillion passenger, was hurled five yards up the bank at the side of the road, succumbing to terrible injuries one and a-half hours after admission to the Waikato Hospital.