ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21088, 13 February 1934, Page 14

ACCIDENTS

VEHICLE SKIDS IN LOOSE SHINGLE FOLK PERSONS INJURED I C!?BESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGtIAU.) PALMERSTON N., February 12. A lorry loaded with side-show-equipment' skidded in loose road metal near Linton to-night and overturned. The driver and four passengers were taken to hospital suffering from extensive injuries. The driver was named I Thornton, and two of the passengers were named Welfare and Whittaker. The names of the other two are not yet known. The condition of all of it'hem is reported to be fairly serious. I KNOCKED OVER BY LORRY | DEATH IN HOSPITAL irscsa assoculio* tblioeaii.) PALMERSTON N\, February* .12. When a motor-lorry was backing lout of an alleyway this morning it collided with a pedestrian, Mrs Margaret Conlon, aged 84, who was taken to hospital, where she died this afternoon. j MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED i MISHAP IN HEAVY FO(J (r«ESB ASSOCIATION TILIGXAU.) DARGAVILLE, February 12. An accident which caused the death of Kenneth Benfleld Hamlin, aged 24 years, a single man, took place at Aoroa, a small river settlement, late on Saturday evening. Hamlin, who was employed at a Dargaville store, was returning home after work on a motor-cycle. It is surmised that owing to a particularly heavy fog lie ran past his proper turning and that while in the act of turning back he ran into a telegraph post. He suffered severe head injuries and was found unconscious a little later by a neighbour who also was returning home. An ambulance was summoned from Dargaville, and Hamlin was removed to the Public Hospital, where he died this morning without regaining consciousness.