FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 140, 24 March 1944, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

YOUTH KILLED IN TRUCK, CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A youth, Henry Bertram Thomas, of 36 Horatio Street, Christchurch, was killed instantly last evening when a 2S-ton truck, which he was driving on ® straight stretch of the road on Monck’s Spur, Sumner, became out of control and overturned. Thomas, who was 16 years old, was driving down the hill, the truck being loaded with wood. The truck Tan off the road, grazed some power poles, hit a fence and overturned. AIRCRAFTMAN KILLED. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 23. When two aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force collided during solo flying training at a South Island air station yesterday afternoon, Leading Aircraftman Andrew Scot Downie lost his life. The pilot of the second plane was not injured. Leading Aircraftman Downie was born at Ormond, near Gisborne. His mother is Mrs R. G. Downie, Auckland. RUN OVER BY A LORRY. (P.A.) CAMBRIDGE, March 23. Mr Murray M. Connolly, aged 36, a married man with- two children, who was quarry foreman at the Karapiro hydro Avorks, Avas run over by a lorry when coming off the 4 o’clock shift this morning. He slipped off the lorry and was so badly injured that he died Avithin a feAV minutes of admission to the Waikato Hospital.