CAR LEAVES ROAD

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 4

CAR LEAVES ROAD

ONE OCCUPANT KILLED FATALITY NEAR WELLINGTON Party Returning From Woodville Races Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, May 1. When a car ran off the road shortly before mid-night, between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu, John Dwyer, a tramway official, of 111 Creswick Terrace, Wellington, was killed, Alexi ander Adcock, of 246 Sutherland Road, a tramway motorman, sustained shock, a fractured left arm and injury to the back, and Ernest John Reilly, of Perth, Western Australia, who is living at 111 Creswick Terrace, shock and facial injuries and bruises to the body. The car was returning from the race meeting at Woodville, and left the road about a mile north of McKay’s Crossing. It struck a telegraph post and finished up in a ditch. The driver, Morris Raymond Adcock, of Sutherland Road, Wellington, had a miraculous escape from injury. The two injured men were taken to a doctor's residence by a passing motorist, and from there to the Wellington Hospital by ambulance. Their condition is not serious.