WEEK-END SMASHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 16

WEEK-END SMASHES

CYCLIST FOUND DEAD TWO SUFFER BROKEN LEGS Several motoring accidents, including two fatalities, occurred during the week-end. Two men suffered broken legs and a third, a Maori, is in hospital with a fractured skull. Aubrey Larkins, aged 32, a married man, employed by the City Dye Works at Dunedin, was found dead on the road near Wakari yesterday with his motorcycle alongside him. The accident apparently occurred when deceased was negotiating a curve. * * -* Finlay McGillivray, aged 19, of West Plains, died in the Southland Hospital on Saturday from injuries received in a collision between a motor-cycle he was riding and a lorry. The accident occurred on Friday evening. A fractured leg was suffered by John Webster, aged 14, of Green Island, who was knocked down by a motor-cycle on the Main South Road, Green Island, last night. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital. * * * Mr. A. M. Bain, aged 2s, had his left thigh and leg broken and suffered severe abrasions to the head, when a side-car in # which he was riding yesterday collided with a two-seater motor-car at Marybank, two miles from Wanganui. Mr. P. Nuttall, the rider of the cycle, escaped unhurt. All in the car escaped injury except a child, who suffered a severe cut on the temple. The side-car was wrecked and the motor-car was badly damaged. $ * At the Central Avenue crossing, Whangarei, shortly before 6 p.m., on Saturday a motor-car and a motorcycle collided. Dorothy Goulsboro, aged 16 years, was admitted to the public hospital in an unconscious condition suffering from severe scalp wounds. Advice yesterday stated that her condition was satisfactory. Mr. Rufus Hardie, the driver of the cycle, escaped with only slight bruises and abrasions. * * * In avoiding a collision with another motor-car, a large car, driven by Miss M. Nixon, of Pukekohe, struck a telegraph post at the corner of Queen Street and Harris Street. The car was considerably damaged, and the post was forced about 20 degrees out of the vertical position. Miss Nixon suffered minor cuts from glass from the windscreen. * * * A Maori, Charles Tumatahi, aged 30, who was pillion-riding on a motorcycle, suffered a fracture of the skull at Rotorua on Saturday evening. The injured man was riding with another native when the machine skidded in some loose sand at the side of the road. He was thrown off. He was conveyed to the King George V. Hospital, where he is lying in a serious condition. The driver of the cycle was not injured.