YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED IN COLLISION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4437, 8 April 1930, Page 3

YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED IN COLLISION.

WITH WANGANUI SERVIiCE

OAR, TWiO LOCAL RESIDENTS INJURED. Following an accident on the Sanson-Foxton road on Sunday evening a young man named E. Brandeis residing at 46A Devon St., Wellington, was admitted to the Palmerston 'North public hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the leg and internal injuries, from which he died at 12.45 o’clock yesterday morning.

Two local residents, Mr. G. and Miss N. Woods, a son and daughter of Mr. and Mi's. F. Woods, of Russell St., were concerned in the fatal motor cycle accident which occurred on the Saiidon Road on Sunday night and resulted in the death of Mir. E. Brandeis, of Wellington. They are at present confined to bed as a result of injuries sustained in the accident. Mr. George Woods sustained a severe injury to his knee and wrist as well as abrasions all over the body and Miss Nellie Woods is suffering from abrasions of the head and down one side of her body, but both experienced miraculous escapes from receiving fatal injuries. When interviewed yesterday they informed our representative that they set out from Foxton on Mr. Brandeis motor cycle, a heavy, four-cylinder, machine with side ear attached. The machine was controlled by Mr. Brandeis and Miss Woods rode in the side chair while Mr. Woods was seated on the pillion seat. In this manner they went as far as Ha-v.-era and set out on the return journey in the afternoon. Wanganui was reached just on dusk when the lights were switched on and everything went well until a few miles south of Sandon. The machine was travelling' at between twenty and thirty miles per hour and when a little distance past the Rongotea Siding corner was passed by a car. Mr. Woods said that he was then riding between the bike and the side car and watching the l oad in front of the machine. The liike was enveloped in a thick cloud of dust when suddenly he saw a service car approaching only a few feet away. A crash was unavoidable and he did not remember anything else until he found himself in a dazed condition on the side of the road about fifteen feet from the motor bike.

Describing the collision Miss Woods said that after leaving Wanganui she had become tired and dozed in the side chair. She glanced up, howevei', just prior to the collision and the only thing she could remember was seeing the lights of a car practically on them. She recovered consciousness to find herself thrown against her brother on the side of the road. Brandeis was on the grass at the rear of the machine with one leg on the metal.

Mr. G. Woods said that the car struck the motor bike practically in the centre, completely smashing the gear box. The front wheel missed the greater part of . the impact, and it. appeared as if the mudguard of the car caught Brandeis leg and knocked him back off the hike. He was frightfully injured but retained consciousness and called out to known how the others were. His leg was badly fractured and the flesh of the calf torn 'away, while he must also have received severe internal injuries from a blow in the stomach. He first said he could feel his leg paining hut afterwards said it had become numb.

Mr. Woods said that the service car driver said that he had first seen the lights of the motor bike about a mile away but there was a lot of dust from passing cars and possibly this was the cause of the accident. There was a good deal of traffic on the road at the time and one car took Mr. Brandeis to the hospital while another brought Mr. AVoods and his sister home. The late Mr. Brandeis was well known here. He was a garage proprietor in Wellington and well known grass track racing motor cyclist. He has ridden at Foxton practically ever since the sports has been in vogue here and had also competed on the dirt track in Wellington. For some years he had been associated with Percy Coleman in the sport and recently he had been offered the position as mechanic on that rider’s visit to England. He was a fearless rider and recognised exponent of grass track racing. He was also interested in flying and had hut a few hours to go before obtaining his pilot’s certificate and he had intended to qualify for this by flying to Auckland this week to the air pageant. His ambition was to procure a ’plane of his own and to fly the Tasman.

■For some time past he had been in the habit of visiting Foxton and during the week end, with his friends, visiting various places. Only last week end he supervised the motor sports held on the Otaki Beach. • -s