MOTOR SMASH
CONSTABLES INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, October 12. As a result of a motor accident on the main Napier-Hastings highway, four Hastings residents, including three police constables, were admitted to the Napier Public Hospital at about 7.30 o’clock tonight, all with fairly serious injuries. They were:— Constable Arthur Robert G. Allen, aged 40, abrasions and injuries to the left arm, and shock. Constable Richard Byrne, aged 27. fractured spine, severe shock; condition critical. Constable Patrick Joseph O’Connor, aged 28, fractured left leg, severe shock and scalp wounds. Edward Douglas, aged 31, injuries to the back, and severe shock. The accident occurred near Awatoto. It was raining heavily at the time and it is understood that the car in which the men were travelling from Napier to Hastings skidded on the slippery road surface and crashed through a fence on to the railway line. It is believed that there were two other passengers in the car, but neither was injured seriously enough to require medical attention. All the constables are married men.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 2
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173MOTOR SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 2
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