YOUTH FATALLY INJURED.
MOTOR-CAR SLIPS FROM JACK.
(FBBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 27. Fatal injuries were sustained by Mansell Henry Edmund Hill, aged 17, when a motor-car which he was cleaning, slipped off a jack and struck him on the head. The injured youth was taken to the Auckland Hospital, and died three hours after admission. The youth had jacked up the front of a car, and was lying underneath cleaning the under-carriage, when the jack slipped, allowing the car to fall. A spring attached to the front bumper struck Hill on the head, rendering him unconscious. He received a fracture of the skullj and died without recovering consciousness.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 17
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