FIVE DEATHS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 8

FIVE DEATHS.

IN MOTOR SMASHES. SYDNEY'S RED ROLL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 15. Victor smashes have been responsible for the deaths of five persons in Sydney during the past week. On Saturday last a boy was killed while riding in a billy-cart at the intersection of Sutherland and Elizabeth street*, city. The hoy. Francis McGuire, 10, with his mate. Norman Corcoran, 15. were travelling at a fast rate, down a steep hill and collided with John Walter Kennedy, who was riding a motor-cycle along Elizabeth Strpet. MeGuiro was flung thirty yards away and landed on his head. Corcoran was al~o thrown some distance away by the force of the impact. McGuire died later at the Sydney Hospital from a fracture of the base of the skull. His mate was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries. The motor-cyclist escaped uninjured. Terrible injuries were received by Robert 'William Hoysted, who was run down and killed by a motor bus at the corner of Anzac Parade and Salisbury Avenue, Kensington, on Monday. The boy ran behind a tram in crossing the road and appeared suddenly in front of the bus which was travelling in the opposite direction to the tram. The bus passed over the boy's head crushing it to a pulp. The ambulance took him to Sydney hospital. where life was pronounced extinct. A few hours later. Mrs. Goddard of Newtown, was run down by a bus in King Street, Newtown, and killed. She alighted from a tram and was struck by the bus, the wheels of which passed over her body, crushing nearly every bone. Though rushed to Prince Alfred hospital, she was dead on arrival, and all the doctors could do was to pronounce life extinct.

Returning from a funeral at the Field of Mars, Hunters Hill, William Albert Hudson, the driver of a motor car, was killed when the car skidded and overturned on a steep hill near the cemetery. Two passengers, David Warren and Charles Henry Anseombe, were injured. Hudson was rushing to the railway station in order to catch the train to Bathurst, where his aged mother was seriously ill. The steering gear broke on the hill, and the car crashed over an embankment following on a series of skids on the slippery road. Hudson was pinned under the chassis while the other two men were thrown clear of the hurtling mass. All were admitted to a nearby private hospital, but Hudson died shortly after admission. Later last night, Henry Joseph Kennair was struck by a heavy motor bus in Harris Street, Pyrmont, which passed over his head and body, crushing both severely. He was dead when picked up by ambulance-men. The driver of the bus which was on the last trip from the central railway station to Five Dock fainted from shock and did not regain consciousness till early this mornin""