WAGON DRIVER KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 245, 13 October 1917, Page 5

WAGON DRIVER KILLED.

EC A MUD-HOLE.

A peculiar accident, with immediately fatal results to a man named Michael Horan. happened in the neighbourhood of Mahirakau. in the Ohura district, on Thursday afternoon, a mishap said to be due primarily to the bad roads. Horaa was driving a rsragon, -which became stuck, in a mud-hole on the road. A wagon driven by one Eastbrook rendered assistance, and hauled the vehicle out. and ! Horan, standing on the front shafts to | urge on his team, commenced to drive on. A couple of chains furtlier on the I cart plunged down into another hole, and jby the jolt Horan was thrown down between tlie horses and the wheels. A front 'wheel passed over his body, and one at jthe back caught him and* dragged the "body some ten or a dozen yards through jthe'mud. The horses were stopped, and I the leaders of another team had to be I requisitioned to drag the wheel off the I body. which was found to be frightfully j crushed. Death must have been instantaneous, as the back ixvas broken. Yesterday an inquest was held over the I body., and a verdict ci death, is. **_&_» I xxas" returned.