ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21658, 17 December 1935, Page 14

ACCIDENTS

SMALL GIRL HIT BY LORRY DEATH FOLLOWS INJURIES Shirley Janet Campbell, agad dx years, the only daughter of Mrs J. Campbell, well-known trainers of racehorses, was fatally injured when struck by a lorry at Sockburn at o’clock yesterday afternoon. The child was playing « at children In the gate erf her bom* a* Epsom street, Sockburn, and suddenly Fan out into the road towards a bicycle which was lying in the middle °Vhe lorry, which is a heavy one belonging to Mr Millner, meat cartage extractor, of Sockburn .was given by Norman Fairburn, of Sockburn, and was travelling away from townThe girl was struck by the lorry and thrown heavily to the ground. Dr. rw Helmore, of Sockburn, was qilickiy on the scene, and ordered the girl to be taken to hospital. The St. John Ambulance took her to the Lewisham Hospital, but she failed to rally, and died soon after admission from very severe injuries to the head. An inquest will be opened before Mr E. C. Levvey, coroner, this afternoon.

dead body beside TRACK CAR FALLS ON TO RAILWAY LINE (PIUS. ASSOCIATION ML*O»AM.) TAIHAPE, December 16. John Coulter, aged 53, a widower with a grown-up son and daughter, and a buyer for the Wellington Meat Export Company, was killed late last night while returning to Taihape from Palmerston North. His < :ar a steep bank near Utiku. slx mllta south of Taihape, and landed on the railway line. Coulter fell out on the line, evidently dead or unconscious. Three trains passed oyer the fine during the night, but the body was not seen till the driver of a goods train from Marton to Taihape at 6.30 saw it lying on the side of the line ih a ditch. The body was badly mutilated by the wheels of a train. An inquest to-day was adjourned after evidence of Identification had been heard.

FRACTURED THIGH

Heaven Gates, aged seveti years, of 15 Park road, Addington, was playing with some other boys in the backyard of his home shortly after 6 o’clock last evening, when he was pushed over and fractured his right thigh. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital about 7 o’clock by the StJohn Ambulance, and he was making satisfactory progress later in the even* ing.

BOY KILLED ON ROAD

(rases associatioh tbssoSam.) WANGANUI, December 18. When he ran under the back Wheel of a passing motor-lorry at Maxwell, near Wanganui, to-day, Raymond Bubb, aged 2| years, was killed instantly. The child was the son of Mr F. S. Bubb, a travelling showman, and the accident occurred on the road near the Maxwell Hall.

CHILD SERIOUSLY INJURED

(PBBSS ASSOCUTIOir T*tWEA«.) MASTERTON, December 16. Noel Robert Ewing, the four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs E. J. Ewing, of Carterton, was knocked down by a lorry this afternoon mfl admitted to the Masterton Hospital With serious head injuries. The child apparently ran into the side of the lorry while trying to cross the road.

young man drowned

(FRBBB ASSOCIATION TELIOBAK.) ' WHANQAREI, December 15. R. F. Miller, aged 25 years, who was employed at tne tlmaWferh Public Works camp seven miles from Rawene, was drowned while swimming in the Orira river yesterday. He had been in the Dominion ohly 13 weeks, ittg come from Melbourne.