COLLISION AT PENROSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 11

COLLISION AT PENROSE

MOTOR-CAR WRECKED ON TELEGRAPH POLE MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED A collision between a motor-car driven by Mr. H. McGregor, of Edendale, and another driven by Mr. H. P. Cameron, of McLaughlin’s Road, Papatoetoe, ocurred on a bend on the Great South Road, south of the Penrose railway station, on Saturday evening. The driver of the former car lost control and the car ran alongside a stone wall for some distance and crashed into an electric-power pole, practically wrecking the car. A passenger, Mr. Norman Henry Jeffrey, who lives at 6 Elgin Street, Grey Lynn, received serious injuries and was subsequently removed to the Auckland Hospital. Mr. McGregor was coming toward Auckland and Mr. Cameron was returning to Papatoetoe. As the two vehicles met at a bend in the road just south of the Penrose railway station, a collision occurred. The impact forced the wheel out of Mr. McGregor’s hand, and also injured his arm, so that he could not check the speed. The car mounted a bank, and after grazing along a stone wall finally crashed in an electricpower pole and became almost a wreck. Mr. Jeffrey, who was in the front beside Mr. McGregoi*. was rendered unconscious, receiving a compound fracture at the base of the skull. He received medical attention in a nearby house and was then taken to tlie hospital. Mr. McGregor received injuries to his right arm, leg and foot, and was unconscious for a time, but soon recovered and was able to proceed home. Three passengers in the back of the car escaped injury. The whole front of the car was crumpled in, the engine badly twisted, the springs and axle broken, and the gearbox and driving shaft wrecked. The other car escaped with a broken wind-screen.