ACCIDENT ON POINT ROAD.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 8

ACCIDENT ON POINT ROAD.

YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED An accident, unfortunately attended with very serious results, occurred on the Pleasant Point Road, at about 7.30 on Saturday evening. It appears that (lives young men, Douglas Christie, and Cecil Gliddon, both of Pleasant Point, and a young man named Henderson, from Opihi, were cvcling home from Timaru, after competing in the South Canterbury road race championship. When on the Pleasant Point side of the Waitawa Siding, they were run down by a motorist, who was coming towards them. AVhen first observed, the motorist is said to have been driving in the middle of the road, and just before reaching the cyclists, he is said to have swerved in suddenly to his wrong side, thereby crowding them on to the gorse fence. Christie was the least fortunate, sustaining a compound fracture to his thigh. He also suffered from loss of blood, and severe ,sliock, and was conveyed to the Timaru Hospital by the St. John Ambulance, which arrived on the scene very promptly. Henderson received injuries to his head, and also suffered from shock, and was removed to the Cottage Hospital at Pleasant Point. Gliddon was less severely injured than his mates, and was able to proceed to his home. The bicycles were badly knocked about, and one of the machines is alleged to have been carried some fifty yards from the scene of the accident. The motorist, it is averred, did hot stop, but got quickly off the scene. Information received from the Public Hospital last evening was to the effect that Christie’s condition is serious.