Four Injured in Motor-Cycle Crash

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 1

Four Injured in Motor-Cycle Crash

HEAD-ON COLLISION TWO SERIOUSLY HURT In a violent head-on collision at a bend in the Great South Road near Penrose last evening, two motor-cyclists, who were carrying pillion passengers, received serious head injuries. Their passengers escaped more lightly, but all four are in the Auckland Hospital. The names of the injured are: Mr. Allan Wilkin_ single, aged 21, of Papakura; compound fracture of the thigh and fracture of the skull; unconscious; condition very grave. Mr. Herbert Crewther, married, aged 28, of Portage Road, Otahuhu; serious head injuries; unconscious; ; condition also grave. Mr. Leonard Aukett, single, aged j 19, of Onslow Road, Papakura, slight! concussion; condition not serious and I reported to be progressing well. Miss Annie Campbell, aged 20, ofi Portage Road, Otahuhu, slight concussion and injury ,to face; condition not serious. Mr. Wilkin, who was carrying Mr. j Aukett as his passenger, was riding I toward the City. Mr. Crewther, with [ his sister-in-law, Miss -Campbell, on ; the pillion seat, was returning to! Otahuhu after visiting his wife in the; Auckland Hospital. The two cycles \ collided head-on just opposite the! Hume Pipe Company’s premises near; Penrose, on an unlighted bend. There! * have been accidents at this point pre- j j viously. ; No one witnessed the collision, but; 1 the crash was heard 500 yards away. ■ i A motorist following closely along the] j road came across the wreckage of the; | two machines lying with the three ; men in a tangled heap to one side of: ! the road. Miss Campbell was lying j a few yards away, where she had i been thrown clear. All four were ’ unconscious. The hospital ambulance was sum- } moned at once. Dr. J. S. Currie and ‘Dr. E. O. Rowley were called, and I were soon on. the scene. The two riders were rushed at once to hospital, the others following later in a private car. The Otahuhu police state that, judging by the position of the wreckage, the motor-cycle coming toward the City was cutting the corner on its wrong side: , , , \ ' .. . »