Two Persons Killed in Motor-Cycle Smash

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1067, 3 September 1930, Page 10

Two Persons Killed in Motor-Cycle Smash

MAN AND YOUNG WOMAN HUH ROAD ACCIDENT JPress Association WELLINGTON, Today. Two people a man and a woman, were killed in a motoring accident at Heretaunga, on the main Hutt Road, at 6.45 p.m. yesterday. The woman was Mrs. Mabel Greig and the man was Mr. Joseph Alfred Banks, single, aged 29, a warder at the Wi Tako prison, Heretaunga. The victims were travelling on a motor-cycle, apparently toward Wellington, and the accident occurred a short distance on the city side of Mason Brothers’ store at Heretaunga. Residents in the vicinity heard a terrific crash and rushed out of their houses. They found a man and a young woman lying at the roadside, both shockingly injured. The damaged motor-cycle was a yard or two away. About 20 yards further on was a new sedan motor-car, which had crashed into the store and come to rest with considerable damage to itself and the building. The driver of the car, Mr. John Matthias Gamble, motor salesman, was not injured. The woman, who was dead almost as soon as she was found, was not identified until this morning. Mr. Banks died from his injuries in the ambulance while being taken to the Wellington Hospital. Mr. Gamble said another car was travelling ahead of him in the same direction, away from the city. His car ran into the posts of the shop and broke more or less into the building itself. It was imbedded in the structure, with the front mudguards badly torn and the windshield shattered. It was impossible last evening to find out definitely what the motor-cycle collided with, and how the accident had occurred.