DEATH FOLLOWS FALL

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1926, Page 10

DEATH FOLLOWS FALL

MOTOR LORRY FATALITY. OTHER WEEK-END ACCIDENTS. RUN OVER BY TWO MOTORS. An accident, which was followed by fatal. results, occurred on Saturday afternoon . near the mental hospital, when Mr. Patrick Teevan, aged 20, of 208, Church Street, Te Papapa, fell from a motor lorry. Mr. Teevan, together .with a number of friends, was on his return from a football match, and, on falling off the vehicle, sustained injuries to his h-ud. These did not appear to be serious, and he was able to continue his way home. It was not until yesterday morning that there was any cause for alarm. Then Mr. Teevan became unconscious, and at mid-day he was removed to the Auckland Hospital. An operation was at once performed, but it was of no avail, the patient succumbing to his injuries shortly after 9 o'clock last evening. Four minor accidents also occurred in the course of Saturday afternoon and evening. To fall off a moving tram car and then to be run over by two motor cars was the fate of Mr. John Edward Ward, of Third Avenue, Kingsland, on Saturday evening. The motors were both proceeding in the same direction as the tram. Mr. Ward, who is a married man, aged 43, with three children, sustained injuries to the head. He was conveyed to the Auckland Hospital by the St. John Ambulance, and this morning his condition was reported as being satisfactory. The accident happened at the junction of Dominion Road and New North Road. A footballer, Mr. S. Taylor, aged 20, who resides at Swanson, sustained a fracture of the right leg while taking part in an Association football match for Swanson against Henderson. He was brought in to Auckland by train and was then «onveyed to the hospital by the St. John Ambulance. He is making good progress. Mr. Patrick Ryan, aged 46, of 36, Cook Street, city, was injured on Saturday evening by a tram car in Hobson Street. He sustained cuts to the head and face and was admitted to the hospital. His condition is not serious. An eight-year-old boy, Burley Smith, whose parents reside at 107, Carlton Gore Road, was admitted to the hospital at half-past seven on Saturday evening, having sustained a fracture of the right forearm through falling from a tree. His condition is reported to be quite satisfactory.