CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4547, 23 December 1930, Page 3

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

DURING WEEK-END. GIRL MOTOR. CYCLIST KILLED. Napier, Sunday. A fatal accident bo I'd an 18-yoar-ofid girl named Hone Hayward as she was riding a motor evde along the Hastings-Napier road at about 0.15 this afternoon. The accident took place where the main concrete road makes a wide sweep round the corner by the Tomoana showgrounds. It appears that deceased rode into a bad patch of loose shingle and tbe machine became unmanageable. Her body struck a telegraph post, inflicting terrible injuries to her head, arms, and legs, from which death took place almost instantaneously. There wore no eye-witnesses of the accident, but a service ear driver arrived on the scene a very few moments afterwards. Deceased was the daughter of Mr. L. J. Hayward, of Hastings. YOUNG WOMAN KILLED, MAN SETRODSLY INJURED. Soon after midnight on Saturday, a voting woman was killed outright and a man was very seriously injured through falling from a moving .car near Lower Hutt. The gii'l killed was Ivy Byron, aged 18, who lived at 132 Tinakori road, Wjcllington. The man injured xvas Chamlon Richmond Batkin, aged 42. Both the deceased girl and her companion were sitting apparently bn the turned-down hood of the car, which is a three-seater, perched up behind the driver and two other people alongside him. The driver, Charles Batkin, of Clareville, Masterton, brother of I lie man injured, noticed suddenly that the pair behind were no. longer with them. The ear was stoplied and they retraced their path for some little distance, coming eventually on the victims lying on the road. The accident occurred near ‘Nai Nai road. Whether the two people felt through a swerve, a bump in the road, or from any other cause has not yet been determined. Oamaru, Sunday. T'lie dead body of William Kirean Dooley, aged 58, was found at the foot of a cliff on the foreshore at 7 o’clock this morning. Apparently the car which deceased was driving crashed over a 30-foot drop late last night. Mr. Dooley lived two streets further on from where the accident occurred and it is thought he probably mistook the turning. He leaves a wife and grown-up family. Invercargill, Sum lay. When Rev. (J. ,1. Toc-ker was motor cycling to Oreti beach on Saturday afternoon a lorry attempted to pass him. Loose gravel caused the lorry to skid into the motor cycle and Mr. Toekcr mid his daughter, who was riding pillion, were thrown heavily. The latter escaped with bruises, hat Air. Toeker sustained broken ribs.