ACCIDENT NEAR GLADSTONE
INSPECTOR AND MOTORIST INJURED.
ONE MAN IN HOSPITAL.
Mr C. N. Cole, of Wrigley Street, Masterton, was admitted to the Mascerton Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning as the result of injuries received in a most unusual type of motor accident.
Mr W. G. Milne, Main Highway’s Board traffic inspector, who had been doing patrol duty at Gladstone where a large crowd attended the Gladstone Sports Club’s dance, stopped Mr Cole’s car near Wardell's bridge. He was showing him a defect in the taillight of his car when another motorcar, travelling towards Gladstone, struck Mr Cole’s car a glancing blow ..nd threw both men to the roadway. Mi Cole received head injuries and.he inspector leg abrasions.
The other car involved was driven oy Mr J. A. Bak, of Masterton, and it finished up in a paddock after having oursi through an old totara fence. Both cars were damaged but not expensively.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 6
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