THREE PERSONS INJURED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 16

THREE PERSONS INJURED

TAXI AND LORRY COLLIDE ACCIDENT NEAR TE KUITI From Our Own Correspondent TE KUITI, Today. A motor collision involving injury to three persons occurred yesterday morning on the Rangitoto Road, about li miles from Te Kuiti. The vehicles concerned in the collision were a truck owned by Morgan’s coal mine at Rangitoto, and a sedan taxi owned by Mr. W. Cole, of Te Kuiti, and driven by Mr. Raymond Reardon. The taxi contained three Maori women and a child, and was proceeding toward Te Kuiti down a decline near a bad bend in the road, when the truck, travelling in the opposite direction, struck the taxi, the right front wheel hitting the car in the centre of the radiator. The impact was terrific, pilling up the taxi dead, and throwing Mrs. Rangi Lee through the windscreen and inflicting severe cuts about her head and face. Mrs. Hikaka Hetet received a broken thumb, the taxi driver’s right leg was hurt below the knee, and the young child was cut about the nose and face. The lorry driver was uninjured. Mr. Reardon, though suffering from an injured leg, immediately set off to secure assistance and had to walk over a mile to the nearest homestead, where he telephoned for a doctor and the police. These were quickly on the scene and Mrs. Rangi Lee was at once taken in to the Te Kuiti Hospital. The other Injured passengers were medically attended and were afterward able to proceed to their homes. The other woman escaped injury, though suffering from shock. The taxi was extensively damaged, the radiator, axles, engine, chassis and windscreen being twisted or broken.