ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.] Palmerstcn N., June 15. Late on Saturday night, when two young men named McCullock, of Hawko's Bay, and Pratt, the youngest son of J. R. Foster Pratt, of Palmerston North, were proceeding to the bitter's home at Fitzherbert, the motor car in which they wero driving was overturned a short distance beyond Fiteherberf, bridge. McCullock, who owned the car, was driving it, and when preparing to negotiate the steep bill, which is approached with a turn, McCullock took too wido a sweep, and the wheel ot the car struck the concrete edge of the culvert. The car turned over two or three times and was badly wrecked. Pratt was pinned beneath, and McCullock was thrown out. Cries for assistance were hoard by somo neighbours, and when they arived they extricated young Pratt, who" was then unconscious. Later, when medical help was obtained, it was found that he was very seriously injured about the head, and had sustained a fracture of the skull. Some of his ribs were also broken. McCullock was not seriously hurt, but Pratt now lies unconscious at the hospital. One of the tyres of the car was sent flying into soma trees on the side of the load.