THREE KILLED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 69, 2 January 1946, Page 2

THREE KILLED

KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAMS ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND ’bP.A.) AUCKLAND, January 1. Three elderly persons lost their lives in a series of trainway accidents in the last two days. All the victims were pedestrians. A man was killed in Queen Street, and. a woman suffered fatal injuries in Remit era Road on Monday afternoon after being struck by a tram. The third fatal tramway accident, occurred this morning, when a man was knocked down in the Great. South Road.

While crossing Queen Street at the corner of Fort Street on Monday afternoon, John Miltiades Hennessey, otherwise known as John Sharon and John Shannon, aged 60, a pensioner, was run over by a Ponsonby hound tram. He died instantly from multiple injuries. Also on Monday afternoon Miss Isabella Jane Hall, aged 75, of Remuera, was crossing Remuera Road when she was struck by a city bound tram. She was taken to the Auckland Hospital suffering from head injuries, and sho died about two hours later. i Tlie third accident occurred when Frederick William Highfield, aged 86, I a retired carpenter, of Green Lane. I was struck by a tram in the Great I South Road this morning. Highfield I was wheeling a bicycle across the road M when tiie tram, which was travelling toward the city, knocked him He suffered a fractured skull and * | other injuries, and died in the Auckland Hospital five minutes after arriving there-