ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19940, 29 May 1930, Page 16

ACCIDENTS.

TRAIN STRIKES LORRY. DRIVER SUFFERS HEAD INJURIES. [THE PBBBS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, May 28. A train and a motor-lorry collided fct a crossing at Wallaccville this morning, and the driver o£ the lorry, A. Gorrie, a carrier at Wallaceville, had a. narrow escape from being killed outtfght. The train struck the lorry broad■ido on near the rear right wheel and threw it clear of the rails about twentyfive feet away. The driver was thrown over a fence which broke his fall. He received head injuries and abrasions, •nd also suffered from shock. After feeing attended by a doctor he was brought in to the hospital. PILLION RIDER HURT. BPBBSS ASSOCIATION TSLEGHAiI.) WELLINGTON, May 28. A. younjj woman, Miss Angus, while riding pillion on a rnotor-eycio at 1 •'clock this morning, fell off in Oriental Parade and was taken to hospital to a grave condition. FOUND DEAD IN CAR. [THE PBESS SpecUl Service.] WELLINGTON, May 28. Shortly after 2 o'clock this aftorKooir a man was discovered dead sitting, in a motor-ear in Ballance street, opposite the Magistrate's Court. It is not known how long he bad been •ittine there and no one had noticed that he was dead until a passer-by, thinking he was asleep, endeavoured to wake him up. The body has been identified as that of Mr C. W. M. O'Loughlan, a health specialist, residing at 38 Colombo street, Newtown. • ENGINE DRIVER KILLED. (press association tbleohav.) WAIROA, May 28. Evan Jones, aged thirty-eight, marTied, a Public Works locomotive driver, was crushed during shunting operations in the Mohaka tunnel on the East Coast.railway works ';!iis morning. He died on his way to the Wairoa Hospital. GIRL STRUCK BY CAR. ' (ri1139 ASSOCIATION TIUEMAM.) WAIPUKTJRAU, May s*B- - Nutt,.aged ten, the younger daughter of Mr Thomas Nutt' of Wanstead, was crossing the road for the purpose of collecting the mail from the letter box when she was struck by a. car driven by Mr E. J White, of Poxangahau. The girl was removed to: the Waipukurau Hospital suffering from shock, bruises, deep; abrasions, ind possibly internal injury.

CYCLIST'S LEG BROKEN.

' As .a. .result; of a collision ,with another, cyelist at the,corner of Antigua •treet'and- lioorhouse.avenue last evening, IVank Kirby, a middle-aged married man,- Hying at 101 Jeffrey's road, received injuries to his left leg. When admitted to the Christchurch Hospital he was found to have a fractured leg. Otherwise his injuries are not serious.