MANY FATALITIES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 36, 22 November 1937, Page 6

MANY FATALITIES

YOUTH KILLED IN COLLISION. CRASH INTO A PARKED CAR. ACCIDENT AT MIDNIGHT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Fatal injuries were sustained at 12.15 a.m. yesterday at Te Hana, near. WeUsford, by Denis Taylor, aged 20, a resident of Mount Eden, when . a sedan car in which he was travelling with a driver named Sellar, came into collision with an open tourer which was parked on the roadside while the occupants were at WeUsford arranging for repairs to a punctured tyre. The sedan was travelling north and after impact turned over two or three times, Taylor being thrown about 14 yards from the car. He was conveyed to the Warkworth Hospital, where he died a few minutes later. Sellar escaped serious injury. Both cars were considerably damaged. YOUTH DROWNED IN HARBOUR. AUCKLAND, November 20. When the 14-foot yacht Will o’ the Wisp, in which he and three other youths were sailing, capsized on the harbour at noon, Roy Stanley, aged 17, was drowned. His companions swam ashore. The yacht was going down the harbour in a fresh south-easterly when it capsized. The four occupants clung to the bottom. Two youths swam ashore, the owner of the yacht, Clarence Goodall, remaining with Stanley. As the boat drifted toward the middle harbour Stanley left and tried to swim to a beacon. He seemed to become entangled in seaweed and disappeared. Goodall was picked up by a dinghy, and the yacht was towed by a launch to-the Auckland side of the harbour. Stanley’s body has not yet been recovered. MAN KILLED BY RAILWAY CAR. WELLINGTON, November 21. Shocking injuries that caused almost immediate death were received by a waterside worker, Mr P. O’Brien, of Vivian Street, Wellington, when the wheels of a railway carriage passed over his body. He was crossing the railway lines near the old Thorndon railway station about 4.15 p.m. on Saturday when he was struck by a shunted carriage and dragged beneath the wheels. He died on the way to the public hospital in the Wellington Free Ambulance. FATALLY injured in car. f AUCKLAND, November 21. When a small car crashed head-on into a tree in Jervois Road, Herne Bay, to-night, the two occupants were seriously injured, one of them dying latei in hospital. The car had been rented from a city firm. The occupants were Mr Ronald o. Sands, a single man, aged 26, a garage employee, and Mr Arthur Owen Greenwood, a single man, of Grey Lynn, who died in hospital. Both were taken to the Auckland Hospital, Mr Sands suffering from concussion and a fractured arm, and Greenwood from concussion. MAN FOUND HANGING. CHRISTCHURCH, November 20. Andrew Stewart Fisher, aged 28 years, a labourer, and a son of Mr D. H. Fisher, general storekeeper, at Hawarden, was found hanging in a shed at the rear of his father’s shop early this morning. Fisher spoke to his father when he got up this morning at 6 o’clock, and it was not until just after 8 o’clock that he was found, hanging from a rafter in the shed by his father, who went to see why the door of the shed / was open.