ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 4. Seriously injured when a ear collided with a heavy motor-truck' last night, Mr Edmund Charles Browne, acred 71, a widower, managing director oF the mercery firm of E. C. Browne, was still unconscious in the Auckland Hospital this afternoon, suffering from head injuries and concussion, His son, Mr Edward Hinton Browne, aged 40, a married man, who was driving, was cut on tho head, face and arms. They were proceeding oil the waterfront road to Mr Browne’s home in Parnell in a touring car when a truck, loaded with coal and slack, began to turn into a lane, but stopped in the roadway to allow a car to pass. The crash was heard a long distance away. The car was badly damaged. The truck, owned by J. J. Craig, Ltd., was not damaged. FATAL FALL FROM A TRUCK. PALMERSTON NORTH, Feb. 4. Falling from a motor-lorry at Manakau, Mr Henry William Dobson, aged 24, a labourer, was fatally injured. His skull was fractured and he died within a few minutes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 97, 5 February 1936, Page 6
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