ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 209, 17 June 1936, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

WAIRAU MOTOR COLLISION. i ANOTHER VICTIM IN HOSPITAL. l .._... l l (Per Presr Association.) l BLE‘AVHEIM, This Day. ’ Mr George Gordon Davidson, driver of the car in which Mr Leonard Leslie l Hart was killed wien it collided with, a. lorry near \Vairau Valley, is still un—conscious. His brother, Mr James Moriss Davidson, :1, single man, who was also in the car, has been admitted 'to hospital suffering from imternal inJlll‘leS. i MAN FOUND DEAD ON‘ QUAD. _ INVERCARIGILL, June 16. Mr Alfred Rasmussen, aged 58, a l well-known resident of Lake Hayes” hiear Queenstown, was found dead yes-‘ 3terda-y on a main highway close to a i cross-road. He was engaged illl rabbit;ing and was cycling from his home iwhen he apparently collapsed. His 1 bicycle was found lying on top of him. CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. ’ HAMILTON, June 16. Fatal injuries were received by Mr Richard Henry Lockyer, of Hinuera, as the result of a collision with a motor-lorry and. trailer driven by Mr Joseph Tebes, of Frankton. Mr Lock‘yer was ridimg a bicycle toward Hinu:era when he was knocked down near 1 the hilatamata racecourse. He died be— i l fore the arrival of a. dactor. ‘ LAD SERIOUSLY BURNED. BLENHEIM, This Day. Serious burns to his head, shoul—ders and chest, and involving his eyes, were sustained by Donald; Gill, aged 12, son of Mr Richard Gill, contractor, when a- tin, thought _to contain explosive, went all? in his hand. His parents had just occupied a dwelling, and the lad found the tin in a shed, and struck it, with disastrous results. He was admitted to hospital. '

MAN KILLED‘ BY TRAIN.

AUCKLAND, “June; 16.

Run over by the wheels of a carriage ol‘ :1. suburban passenger train at ()tnhuhu station early this morning, Mr Richard Edelsten, aged 54, an unemployed motor painter, of Otahuhu, was killed instantaneously. Mr Etlelsten had left his home shortly before 8 a.m. to travel to Auckland by the 8.18 train. As the train was moving slowly from the island platform Edelsten was seen running across the lines of the eastern ,sidings toward the rear carriage. On feeling unusual bumps the guard signalled the train to stop and: the body of Mr Edelsten was found on the line. The wheels of the last carriage had passed lover his chest.

Mr Edelsen, who leaves a widow and; two children, was a returned soldier, having servccl with the Aus'tralian forces during the GreatJVar.