SOLDIERS INJURED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 2

SOLDIERS INJURED

COLLISION IN STRAIGHT CARS HIT TELEGRAPH POLE (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Sunday Two soldiers from the Papakura military camp and a civilian were njured and their motor-cars wrecked in a collision on the Takanini straight of the Great South Road yesterday. The injured were:—Gunner Joseph Patrick Stanaway, single, aged 30, of Mangawhare, Dargaville; concussion and lacerated scalp; condition not serious. Gunner Clive W. Power, aged 30; lacerated arm; discharged from hospital after treatment. Mr David Ross Turner, farm hand, aged 19, son of Mr and Mrs Harvey Tumei, of 40 Summit Drive, Mount Albert; double fracture of the left arm. A car driven by Gunner Stanaway struck the back of Mr Turner’s smaller car, which it was overtaking. The force of the impact threw Mr Turner through the side-curtains of his car on to the road. His car turned over, rolled down a bank and crashed into a telegraph pole. The other car careered forward, and collided with the next telegraph pole. Both cars were coming to Auckland. Mr Turner, who is employed on a farm at Papakura, was on his way home to spend the week-end with his parents. He was taken to a private hospital, and the soldiers to the Auckland Hospital. A third soldier in Gunner Stanaway’s car, Gunner M. May, escaped injury. CAR DOWN BANK MEN ESCAPE WITH CUTS (By Telegraph.—special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday When the small saloon car in which they were travelling along the claysurfaced Tangarakau Gorge road, between Stratford and Taumarunui, skidded from the roadway and rolled down a 40ft. bank to within six feet of the Tangarakau River, Mr H. E. Loach and Mr W. Gorby, of Whanga—vnomona, had a remarkable escape. They were able to force their way from the wrecked vehicle unscathed, except for cuts and abrasions. The car was badly battered, the doors being stove in, the light and other accessories, broken off and all glass with the exception of the windscreen shattered. It was hauled back to the road with the aid of a bulldozer.