ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20880, 13 June 1933, Page 15

ACCIDENTS.

TRAM PASSENGER'S DEATH. CONTACT WITH CENTRE POLE. (PHESS ASSOCIATION I*LTSGiIUi.) AUCKLAND, June 12. Shocking injuries to the head, which proved fatal an hour later, were received by Mrs Yvonne Wheadon, aged 28, "when she came info violent contact with a centre pole while standing on the front step of a tram car in Pitt street this evening. The conductor of the tram car said Mrs Wheadon and her two children boarded the car at Point Chevalier. When the tram reafelied the Point Chevalier Theatre the children left the car to go to the pictures and their mother continued the trip toward the city. "As we were coming down Pitt street the woman, who was in . the front half of the tram, suddenly left her seat and hurried toward the front platform," said the conductor, "She looked over the chain oh the righthand side of the platform and stood for a moment on the step. She was immediately struck violently against the centre pole and knocked from the I step on to the roadway." Mrs Wheadon was suffering from grave head injuries, and died ia hospital. She is survived by her husband and two children. The husband left home for a camp in the country this morning. The children, who are young, are being cared for by friends. OLD MAN STRUCK BY TRAIN. (riIESS ASSOCIATION TELEttBAH.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 12. Struck by an engine at the Weymouth street crossing at 1.30 p.m., Robert Hyde Mace, aged 81, a New Plymouth resident, died in hospital at 4.15 p.m. His right leg was severed above the ankle and his left leg bruised. Shock caused death. Mace apparently came from Kawaroa Park, which is alongside the railway, , and crossed in front of an engine proceeding from the Morley street sheds - to* the station to draw the midday express to Wanganui. It is stated that the engine whistle was sounded, but Mace, who was somewhat deaf, did not hear it, and walked on to the crossing. The engine, an AB type, was travelling slowly, and stopped within 50 feet on a downward grade. It was driven by F. W. Scott, of Wanganui. The crossing is not regarded as dangerous. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. (rr.ESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON, June 12. Benjamin Charles Gentry, aged 22, a farm hand, who was thrown from his bicycle in a collision with a motorcar at Taupiri on Thursday, died in hospital yesterday. John Lewis Piercy, aged 23, a farm hand, who suffered serious injuries through falling from his motor-cycle at Rukuhia on Saturday, also died yesterday. Piercy was returning from a holiday spent with his parents- at Wanganui, when the machine skidded in loose metal for a distance of 50 feet.