MOTOR FATALITY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3492, 21 May 1920, Page 5

MOTOR FATALITY.

SENSATIO-NAL COLLISION NEAR SANDON._' P.-SLMERSTON 51., May 20. A motor fatality occurred one mile on the Wanganui side of Sandon, at 6.30 to-night. A car drisfen by Warren Newth, taxi driver, coming from Wanganui races, crashed ‘into a car driven by A. E. Eglinton, a 7 sanaon settler, who‘ was going from Palmerston’. Both vehicles were overturned and wrecka'ed_ Eglinton sustained terrible injuries to tbeliead and died shortly after wards. E. A. Penny, a’ farmer, who was sitting in the front seat, had his skull fractured and both legs broken. He is not expected to survive the night. Mr and Mrs A’Oourt, in the back seat, escaped with a fen? bruises. Warren Newth was rendered unconscious, but is not seriously injured. Basil Fair-cloth was practically unhurt. N. Powell received facial injuries, J. C. I‘/IcConkey and Kidman sustained bad face and scalp wounds, and Rendau (3, postal employee) is suffering from shock and bruises.