ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

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HAMILTON, Last Night. A party of Ngaruawahia motorists had a miraculous escape from destll when their car went over a hiia hank on Raglan deviation at 8 last night. All were hurt, the occupants being Bert Fowldes, who sustained concussion and a compound fracture of a wrist, Harold Bernard McLean, spinal injuries, A'rchie Ernest Shields, fractured wrist and shock, John Haggie and David Jackson, hoth abrasions and shock. The ac_ cident Occurred at a sharp bend 15 miles from Hamilton.' Apparently Ihe driver, Haggie, took ioo wide a sweep when negotiating a turn and the car plunged over an almost perpendicular hank. It fell 100 feet. erashing through f .e scrub and irees to finish, a complete wreck, at ihe bottom, parts bemg strewn everywhere. Nurses had to bd lowered on ropes and the sufferers were rescued by this means and sent to the Waikato Hospital.

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AUCKLAND, March 28. J. Davison, one of the compethors m the motor cycle races at Takapuna on Saturday, as the result of colliding with the inside fence, sustained serious abdominal injuries, and is in hospital in a critical con- * dition. He is 21 years of age and was employed at the Newmarket railway workshops. J. A. Davison, who was injured in the motor-cycle race on Saturday died' in the hospital this morning. Daniei Neale, aged 70, a resident of Grey Lynn, was knocked , down hy a motor car when he stepped into the street from . the shadow of a tree. He sustained serious injuries which caused his death.

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WAIROA, March 28. Bert Butler, a young motor drivar. while out fishing m a launeh on Lake Waikaremoana yesterday fell overboard qnd was drowned. His body was r-scovered shorily afterwards, but life was extinct.