MOTOR ACCIDENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 January 1913, Page 5

MOTOR ACCIDENT

(By Telegraph".—Press Association.; WELLINGTON, Last Night. A motor car accident of a serious nature occurred yesterday near the Silver.stream Bridge. Two' curs were bound for the races, and it appears that one, a taxi car, was being taken up past the other. . The latter got too i'ar off the road,-and in attempting to straighten it up tlie driver turned its head back on the road too sharply, the result beilig that the two cars coHkta!. One dashed clean through a wire fence, taking out the posts, and pulled up,. inuch damaged, in the adjoining paddock. The other, which was« also damaged, remained on the road. The occupants of both cars were thrown out violently. .Tee Foster, the driver of one of the cars, was thrown through the wind'screen, his right, hip being severely lacerated. Mr W. M. Curtis, an American visitor. had his left arm broken. Mr H. Brown snfiVml an in.iurv t.o his back, and Mr H'lbtou, another na?<,sender . suffered t . from shock. Of +hose'in tb" fiflior Mr Gerald vS. Mead and AH- Murphy escaped- with n '•bakin<y. bu+ Mr TTarw Duff, of had, several rib* broken.Thi ini'n'frl nu" 1, n-ej-e attended to T)r. Fvffe. -md «-ii« «pr»+ to j-tio lir.«nit'>l. wbil" Murphy, «.ft'-i- rpoe'"ino- n++f>T)ti"" at the mnbnlji'ico licti'iifa! e»> the. rju ,f> er , iir <;< *. --:>•< brought to a private hospital in tcvi.