ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21726, 7 March 1936, Page 18

ACCIDENTS

4 - luN'roErmiifia)' man’s .' DEATH STRUCK BY MOTOR* LORRY ~ , (pbzss imatsuatm toww.} PALMERSTON NORTH, March. 6. A man whose identity is not known died from injuries which he received to-day when he was struck by a motor-lorry driven by Paul Rabone, aged 18 years, on Longbum road. He crossed the highway at a right angle and then stepped back and was struck by the vehicle. The police are trying to establish his identity. He was probably a stranger to the district He is described as .being elderly, of medium fcuild, and with sandy grey hair. He was going bald. At the time o£ the accident iie was wearing dark denim trousers, a grey suit coat, a brown ,overcoat, and brown hat and shoes. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED IN COLLISION (puss association vacua**.) MASTERTON, A motor-cyclist named William John Steele, aged 24, employed at Orui station. Riversdale. was killed outright to-night, when he collided with a car on Biairlogie Hill, 17 miles from Mas* terton. a pillion-rider named Sullivan, employed at Riversdale station, received facial injuries and shock, and w« admitted to the Maeterton Hospital. • The car was driven by Patrick Hugh Scanlan, of Fordell. It is. believed that Steele came from Dannevirke. FARMER KILLED WHEN DRAY CAPSIZES

(PUSS ASSOCIATION T«L»aa*V.)

DUNEDIN, March 6.

Andrew Melville, aged 33, a dinner, of the Milton district, was killed instantly on Thursday evening when a dray he was driving capsized and fell over a alx-foot embankment. Mel* ville bad been assisting a neighbour* ing farmer with his harvest, and was returning home when a pair of horses attached to the dray swerved to the side of the road when going down an incline, causing the vehicle to capsize. Melville’s neck was broken.

MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURE©

IMPACT WITH TRAM-CAR

(PUSS ASSOCIATION TBUWaAH.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, March d. When the motor-cycle he was riding crashed into a tram-car, R. W.. McKenzie, an electric linesman, received a fractured left , arm and concussion, He Ilea in the New Plymouth Public Hospital in a serious congi-. tion. Revere shock was suffered by McKenzie, and for some time after admission to hospital no X-ray examination could bo mane, it is understood that he was endeavouring to avoid a girl on a . bicycle and did not see the tram-car. He struck it with his head when the front, wheel of the. cycle-buckled. ,

FALL FROM TREE

C. J. A’Court, of 840 Colombo street, broke a leg when he fell from a fruit tree yesterday. He was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital and admitted, ,

CYCLIST HURT

Thomas Cook, of 371 Cambridge terrace. received head injuries yesterday afternoon when the bicycle he was riding in Oxford terrace, collided with a motor-car. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital