MANY ACCIDENTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 5

MANY ACCIDENTS

(Press Assn.

TOLL OF HOLIPAY .: more than a dozen in taranaki qver ; ' * we^jind ' , _ . CAR THROUGH RAILING ,'L- "

— By " llelegraph — Chpyr.ightj. .

New Plymouth, Monday^ With the roads alive with .fqurist holiday traffic, over a dozen motoi acciderits occurred in Taranaki during the week-end. One was fatal arid several others inyolved serious injurjV Oue car falled to negotiate the raip way overhead bridge near Leppertbji Junction, crashed through "the raiTjhg ' and fell 30 feet to the railway,' . Patriek Newton, aged 24, ' Ibri'y driver of Waikanae, near Otaki, w&s pinned under the wr eckage ahd ' S6 seriousfy injured that he died 'on Saturday evening shortly af t er'a dmiSsioh. ' to hospital. The driver of the car, the only other Qccupant, was Jahies Baxter, sawmiller of Waikanae, who suffered abrasions. and shock. His" condition is satisfactory. * ' hlr, C." Simuionds and his sister pfCape Egmont Lighthouse, mOtor cyclist and a. pilliop fider, on Saturday collided with a Ipxty. Simmoh'ds stifr fered a fraetured skull and a broken right arm and is in hospital ih a serious condition. This- evening his Co'ut dition is unchanged- His sister fecpTv-c-d an injury tp the right arm but her condition is satisfactory. , -''7 Benjamin Orr, of Otorohanga, at Awakenp suffered a dditble misfotr * tune. The tyre of his motor 6ycle bufst and he was thrpwn to'the road and dazed by the fall. He .staggered tp hi? ieet and was struck by a passing car, suffering a fraetured' rightknee and an injury to the right shoulder. " * ' ' An aged' woman, Mrs. Crockett was * knocked dowu hy a car in a New Plyniouth StreetV'but was* hot seriously injured and was taken home after treatment- ' Several other accidents involved slight personal injuries.