ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 167, 29 April 1935, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

TWO WOMEN KILLED. LORRY FALLS OYER BANK. * ,'Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 28. An accident resulting in two women being killed, and a child injured, occurred this evening on the PortoIbello Road. The victims were: — Killed. Mrs Esther Matilda Good, a widow, aged 72, of Dunedin. Miss Annie Julian, aged 46, of Dunedin. Injured. Hilda Gray, aged seven, whose parents live in Cromwell. -The victims were all related. They were members of a party returning to Dunedin in a lorry, the two women occupying the front seat with the driver, John Garrick, of St. Kilda. The driver dimmed the lights oi the vehicle to pass an approaching car, and the lights failed when he tried to switch them on. The lorry plunged over a bank 12 feet high. The other occupants escaped injury.

KILLED BY A TAXI. AUCKLAND, April 28. Fatal injuries were received by John Joseph Windsor! aged 61, of Freeman’s Bay, when he was struck by a taxi-cab at the intersection of Franklin Hoad, and Wellington Street on Saturday evening. Bain was falling at the time. Windsor received severe head and internal injuries, his death occurring before the arrival of an ambulance. He lived with his wife and family.

MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 28. When his motor-cycle crashed into the rear of a stationary motor-truck in the early hours of this morning, Stanley Carlyon, aged 37, was so severely injured internally that he died a few minutes after his admission to the hospital. A pillion rider, Alfred Gifford, was only slightly injured, but is in the hospital for observation. Carlyon was married, with two children.