CAPSIZE OF MOTOR CAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 6 December 1926, Page 6

CAPSIZE OF MOTOR CAR.

ONE OCCUPANT KILLED

ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. TAURANGA, Dec. 4. A motor car fatality occurred about three o'clock this afternoon about nine males from Tauranga on. the XaurangaWaihi road. It appears that Mr Leslie Allan Cooper, employed by the borough hydro-electric station, McLaren’s Fails, with his wife and two children, drove to Waikino yesterday to bring Airs Cooper's parents, Air and Mrs John Odium, of Waikino, across lor the Cliristmas. ’The party were returning to-day, and when they reached tiie point stated the car apparently swerved, hit the bank and capsized. Air Cooper, who was driving, was thrown out through the windscreen and Airs Cooper was also thrown clear. The children aiso escaped uninjured. But Air Odium was picked up dead and Airs Odium was found seriously injured. A passing motor car driven by Air Hugo Dickson came upon the party and found Air Odium and the Coopers clear of the car,, but Airs Odium and the two Cooper children still mixed up in the wrecked hood. With the assistance of some men who arrived almost simultaneously from the other direction in a motor lorry, the overturned car was lifted clear. The children were alright, but Mrs Odium was found to be seriously injured and was brought by Air Dickson to the Tauranga Hospital and found to be suffering from a fractured skull, a broken leg, and internal injuries- Her condition is critical.

The body of Air Odium was brought into Tauranga later.