ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 February 1932, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUTH KILLED NEAR WANGANUI. MOTOR CYCLE LEAVES ROAD. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, Jan. 31. Jack Cook, single, about 18 years_ of age, whose parents reside at 79 Hawkestone Street, Wellington, was killed on top of Wangaeliu Hill, eight miles from here, about mid-day. He and a man named Cameron King, of 100 Lenmore Street, Wellington, were riding a motor cycle, when the machine left the road. Mr Cook was killed outright and Mr King was taken to the Wanganui Hospital with concussion. It is not known definitely who was on the pillion seat, but it is understood Mr Cook was. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. AUCKLAND, Jan. 31. Miss Pauline Stubbing, of New Lynn, who was injured in a motorcycle accident on Friday, died in hospital. Miss Stubbing was riding on the pillion seat of a motor-cycle driven by Mr Smith, of One Tree Hill, when the cycle crashed into a telegraph pole. , The condition of Mr Smith, who also received severe head ■ injuries, is fairly serious. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 31. Frederick Sweegland Horneman, aged 23, a mechanic employed by the Post and Telegraph Department, who lived at 120 Rossal Street, Menvale, was killed when the motor-cycle lie was riding collided with a car on the beach road at Kaiapoi at 9 p.m. yesterday. The driver of the car, Frederick Ellis, and the pillion rider, Kathleen Baker, both of Kaiapoi, suffered minor injuries. All were removed to the Christchurch Hospital, Mr Horneman dying without regaining consciousness shortly after midnight.

TE AUTE SMASH PROVES FATAL.

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HASTINGS, Jan. 31

Ri Kaurauia, farmer, of Oringi, near Dannevirke, succumbed to-day to injuries sustained on January 18 when a lorry he was driving plunged over a bank on the To Auto Hill. His injuries consisted of several broken ribs, one of which penetrated a lung.

TWO RIDERS INJURED.

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HASTINGS, Jan. 31

Alfred Eagle, aged 22, sustained concussion of the head and facial injuries, and Cecil Verran, aged 26, was also seriously injured on Saturday evening

on the Napier-Waipukurau main highway in a collision between a motorcycle driven by Mr Verran with Mr Eagle riding on the pillion, and a car driven by Dr. R. J. Sutton, of Napier. Mr Verran and Mr Eagle were both thrown some distance, -and both are in hospital. Mr Eagle’s condition is .satisfactory, but Mr Verran had only regained semi-consciousness this evening.