FATAL ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 8

FATAL ACCIDENT.

■ » LITTLE GIRL KILLED. RUN OVER BY MOTOR LORRY. A sad accident, resulting in the death of a little girl, Betty D'Harty, aged ten j years, and the daughter of Mrs. D'Harty, Beach Road, Point Chevalier, occurred this morning a few minutes before nine o'clock in Great North Road, Grey Lynn. The girl was a pupil attending the St. Joseph Convent School, and had arrived by a motor bus driven by Mr. G\ <_'andle. The bus stopped opposite the school, and the girl alighted, walking round the ifront of the bus in order to cross the I road. Just as she did so one of the Auckland City Council's four-ton lorries, driven by Mr. Edward H. Peters, approached from behind, and was passing the bus when the girl apparently realised her danger and attempted to step back. She was wearing goloshes, and -it is thought she slipped on the wet roadway and fell under the lorry, one of "the back wheels passing over her head. The unfortunate child was carried into St. Joseph's Schoolrom and examined by Dr. O. F. Lamb, who found the head crushed and life extinct. After the mother, who is a widow, had been sent for the child was removed to the morgue. An inquest will be held later.