SERIOUS STREET SMASH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 79, 29 April 1909, Page 3

SERIOUS STREET SMASH

MOTOR CAlt AM) CART VIOLENTLY COLLIDE. • YOUNG MAX SERIOUSLY INJURED. ; Shortly before midnight Uwt night a serious accident was occasioned in Devon street as the result of a collision between Mr. Alexander's powerful motor car and a spring trap, believed to belong to Mr. Xewton King, and driven by a young man named .lames, son of the 'manager of Mr. Xewton' King's Bell Block farm, .lames, accompanied by a man named Hogg, was proceeding homeward from town, the cart being laden with sacks 01 grain, and had proceeded about 50 yards past the Liardet street corner when the collision occurred. From the position of the wreckage if the cart, it would.seem that James w.\* slightly on his wrong side, and so far as- was evident, had no lights. The street lights were burning brightly, however, although at the point of the collision it was somewhat dark. The motor car was coming into town, and apparently was crossing over to its right side of the road whoa the accident happened. When passing Jury's stables, our reporter was informed, the ear was run ning at a solid pace, close to th c footpath on the wrong side of the road, which, however, was quite clear of traffic on that side., The driver of the car apparently wan working ovc r to the other side or the road when the impact I occurred, the leakage of water from the i damaged portion of the car being almost on the crown of the street. From the indications, the near wheel of the cart struck the front of the car. the violence of the impact throwin" the horse, both shafts of the trap "being smashed by the fall. The horse broke loose and escaped unscathed. Jaines was apparently thrown violently on to his head and neck, the other occupant of the trap being thrown out over the back. Tlie crash ot the collision brought out the neighboring residents and the grooms from Jury's stables. James was found lying on the road in an unconscious condition. Dr. Fookes was immediately summoned, and on arrival ordered the injured man's removal to the hospital, where ho-was found to be suffering frpm ■ concussion of the brain. The occupants of tile ear, Mr. A. Alexander and another gentleman, marvellously escaped uninjured, as the shaft of the cart must have missed them by inches. The mechanism of the car was uninjured, although the front o't the body was considerably knocked about. The injured man James is a recent arrival from England, as also was life companion in too trap.