MOTOR FATALITY AT BUCKLEY.

Shannon News, 21 December 1926, Page 2

MOTOR FATALITY AT BUCKLEY.

CAR GOES OVER BANK. | | A motor accident occurred on Satur- . day afternoon about 4.30 p.in. just bellow the junction' of the Buckley road and the main road to Levin, resulting in the death of a man supposed to b s Roy Bloomfield, of Hawefa. The driver 1 of the car was Joseph Patrick Lavin, »• ! business agent, who resides at Lyall ißay, Wellington, and he was proceedj ing south. Passing through Shannon !he gave a lift to Bloomfield. Just after, ihe car passed the corner mentioned, another car approached from the oppo , site direction, thfe cars meeting at the | bend. To avoid a collision Lavin, who was on his left side, pulled over as far as ’-'ossible, with the result that the car went over the bank and /after turning over several times landed hfc the bottom, a distance of about 25 feet. Both men went over with the car. Lavin was able •to extricate himself from the wreckage. I On looking for his passenger he found him lying under the car in a drain. As be was vinable to remove him he held the unfortunate man’s head up out of the water 1 until -assistance arrived, which came almost at once. Dr. Bell arrived shortly afterwards, tut all he could do was to pronounce life to be extinct, the victim having sustained, a fractured skull and other injuries. / Lavin escaped with scratches cn his i face and head and a number of bruises , about the body. Hie car was badly damaged. An inquest was opened ,at Shannon on Sunday afternoon by Mr Fraser, district coroner, \yhen the evidence of Dr. • Bell was taken, afterwards. being adi journed until Thursday, December 23, ■ at 2.30 p.m. \ i The unfortunate man is supposed to i be Roy Victor Bloomfield, 26 years of • age. of Hawera, and a son of Mr W. • Bloomfield,,, retired farmer, of Mata- , mata. The description given by his un- ’ cle, Mr 11. W. Seed, of Hawera, tallies exactly with that of the victim. Rela- [ fives were expected in Shannon to-day \ when it was expected the identification will be verified. He had been stopping with his uncle at Hawera, but left there ) on December 10th for Shannon, in i search of employment: