SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10521, 9 January 1912, Page 5

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT

MR AND MRS W. J. MASON INJURED. The motor accident wfhich befel Mr and Mrs W. J. Mason, formerly of Mosterton, is described by the Oaniievu>rlte Noams as follows: Four Dannevirke residents and two children exjperiencedl ,a nerve-trying motor accident on Sunday, from which they were lucky to escape with their lives.

The oar, driven and owned by MirJias. Lmng&tone, ci Maingahei, was precipitated over a baaik near Ngapaerucu, with the result that,— Me' W:. J. Mason, chemist, of Daniievirke, Iliad lwis' thigh broken. . Mil's Mason, Iris' wife, severely -tift*ted her left wrist, and sustained mtmerou'S bruises.

Mis Wiltshire was badly braised and shaken.

(hie of Mir livings-tone's ankles was seriously strained. The cihiMiren of ->>r and Mrs. Mason and! Mrs Wiltshire escaped with a. fright aaid brufi-cs. The accident (.ccurred just before (mid-day. ilt appears; that Mr Livingstone was cV.'ining. t5Te party ouit along the main B'aniievirkerWeber road. ' They had ■turned off the irjain road sit th© nine mile peg, and were proceeding along the Tuturewa road, on wliieh, at places, there are sharp descents. As the car was proceeding down one of these ibflfe Mr Livingstone swerved to avoid' an obstacle, and the brakes refusing to act, th>? car 'bounded off the road down a 30-foot drop, Mr Mason, it is believed, jumped, and with Mivs Mason landed in front of the car which, fell owing, came right on top of them, one of the tthee's resting on Mrs. Maron. I'Vrtuinately, tho grownd was uneven, ard tlni-s saved the vicrtCms ■flrcm vcc-tiiing the i'uii! weight of the CIW.

A tit'sta.ii.ee was sewirod, and t.b<e Darmeviirl.e Coacliiiiijg Company, on bta-ng ocsivu a:ir;'oat€d with, sent out a conveyruioe to bring the party back to Dm.nnev.irke. Serious as the a'xocfrnt war, the victims were lucky iaii escaping vHifcli no heavier injuri.es. Tlhe car was much damaged, being almost a total wreck.

The injured people were progires,siing favourably to-day, but it will be son<>e wcells before Mir Mason Ims sufficiently recovered to enable lrim to resume business.