MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
(By Te:egrapU-—Press Association.) NAPIER, Thursday. . A schoolboy named Thomas Isaac Butcher, aged six years, was so severely injured as the result of an accident opposite the Hastings Street School shortly after noon to-day that he died ju=t after being admitted to the Xapier Hospital. Deceased was hanging on to tie rear of a motor lorry, and suddenly ran out into the road in front of a passing motor car, which Avas being driven by Miss K. Speedy, of "Waipaw-a. The lorry and the ear were proceeding in the opposite directions, and the lad ran from toehinj the lorry just as the car passed, and could not stop in time to avoid it. He put his hand out on to the mudguard of the car in an effort to etop. but the car threw him to the ground in front of it. and passed over one wrist. It is thought that his skull was fractured by the fall. An inquest will be held.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 164, 11 July 1919, Page 9
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