FATAL ACCIDENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 300, 2 October 1939, Page 8

FATAL ACCIDENTS

WOMAN ATHLETE KILLED, LOWRY AND CAR. -COLLIDE: (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, October 1. A New Zealand champion woman athlete was fatally hurt, her twin sister very seriously injured, and two companions suffered less serious injuries in a collision between a cream lorry and a small car at 'Mount Wellington. The victims were:— Killed. Miss Doreen Lumley, aged 18, a daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Lumley, Grey Lynn. Injured. Miss Bernice Lumley, a twin sister of Doreen, fractured skull, condition very serious. Albert Francis Stanley, accountant, aged 19, of Epsom, injury to right leg, condition not serious. Peter Sharp, a motor engineering apprentice, aged 19, of Green Lane, discharged from hospital after treatment for minor injuries. . .The victims of the accidmt wt-ie occupants of a small- car driven by Sharp. PEDESTRIAN FATALLY HURT. WANGANUI, October 1. Injuries which resulted in his death on Sunday morning in the Wanganui Hospital'-'-were received at Marton on Saturday night by Mr John Joseph Stopforth, of Te Awamutu. The accident occurred in Station street. Mr Stopforth, who was walking on the bitumen roadway, was struck by a car driven by Mr Frank Barry, of Foxton. MAN’S DEATH FROM INJURIES. AUCKLAND, October 1. As a result of injuries received in the Papaltura Military Camp on September 22, when he was struck by a collapsing, wall, Mr Arthur William Dicks, a married man, aged 44, died in the Auckland Hospital. He was a carpenter and lived at Parau. YOUNG MAN FOUND SHOT. TIMARU, This Day. Andrew John Glennie, son of Mr and -Mrs William Glennie, a single man aged 22, employed as a. farm labourer at Totara Valley, was found dead yesterday with a bullet- wound in the forehead and a .22 calibre rifle lying alongside, the body.