DOUBLE FATALITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 875, 20 January 1930, Page 16

DOUBLE FATALITY

TWO MOTOR-CYCLE RIDERS KILLED COLLISION WITH CAR Front Our Own Correspondent ■ PALMERSTON N., Today. Two young men were killed when a motor-cycle they were mounted on collided with a motor-car at Newbury on Saturday night. They were: Clarence Eggleton, aged 28, an enginedriver. Arthur Hazlehurst, aged 31, farm labourer. The accident happened about 7.25 p.m., and the mortor-car was driven by Mr. Bache Wright Harvey, a farmer, of Beach Road, Waverley. Mr. Harvey was returning to his home after a holiday spent in Wellington. With him in his car was his sister-in-law, Miss Dolly Howie, and Mr. Arthur Ernest Joblin, of Milverton Avenue, Palmerston North, a school teacher on the staff of the College Street School. The motor-car was travelling along the main road through Newbury toward Bunnythorpe when the motorcycle, ridden by Eggleton and with Hazlehurst mounted on the pillionseat, suddenly appeared from out of a side road, known as No. 4 Line. SWERVED IN VAIN The motor-cycle shot right in front of the oncoming car, which swerved violently to the right in a vain attempt to avoid a collision. The car struck the cycle full-on, crumpling it up with a sickening crash, according to witnesses.

The car immediately pulled up and Mr. Joblin hurried round to the back, to find one of the young men lying flat on his back. He pulled him away a short distance and looking under the car, saw the other victim and dragged him out also. Dr. King and the police were immediately sent for but both young men were frightfully injured and succumbed before medical aid arrived. They were taken to the morgue at Palmerston North. Eggleton, who was a traction-engine driver, resided with his father, Mr. W. Eggleton, a well-known contractor in the district, at Bunnythorpe. Hazlehurst also lived at Bunnythorpe, with his widowed mother. His father had been a farmer in the district. Both were popular young men. Some idea of the force of the impact is given by the damage to the motor-car, a brand-new, heavy sevenseater sedan. The radiator was crushed in, buckling up the whole of the bonnet,, while the headlights were twisted out of shape, the front bumper was crumpled and twisted, while one mudguard was badly damaged.