ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Whilst motoring from Ngaruawahia to Hamilton on Friday evening (states the Hamilton correspondent of the Auckland Star) D. Hay, stockbroker, a well known cricketer of Auckland, endeavored to avoid three animals on the road, and crashed through a fence into a pot hole. He was apparently endeavouring to apply the foot brake, but pressed the accelerator instead, with the result that the car bounded forward, and, after striking the fence, turned a double somersault. Mr Hay was struck in the chest by the steering wheel. Several ribs were broken, and his chest was crushed, causing hemmhorage of the lungs. He is at present in a private hospital at Ngaruawahia. Mr A. Miller, manager of the. Stock Department of the Farmers' Auctioneering Company, who accompanied Mr Hay, escaped with a slight injury to his knee.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 8 November 1916, Page 2
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139ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 8 November 1916, Page 2
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