LORRY DRIVER KILLED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 10

LORRY DRIVER KILLED

POWER POLE STRUCK INQUEST AT TIMARU [THE PRESS Special Service.] TIMARU, December 22. Hong Arc, the driver of a motorlorry, who was admitted to the Timaru Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries sustained when his motor-lorry struck a pole in King street, died this morning about 10 o’clock. An inquest was held this afternoon, before Mr H. Morgan, coroner. Medical evidence was given by Dr. J. Campbell McKenzie, medical superintendent at the Timaru Hospital, that as far as he could learn from Hong Arc who was conscious but somewhat muddled cn admission, he was struck by the steering wheel of the truck he was driving. An operation was performed, but he became worse and died. A post-mortem examination showed that the structure of the back wall of the abdomen was seriously lacerated, the injuries being so . bad as to be irreparable. Witness considered that death was due to shock, following extensive abdominal injuries, Frank E. Miller, labourer, who was working near the scene of the accident, said that on hearing a crash he made investigations and helped Hong out of the truck. There was no other traffic in King street at the time. Hector G. Baigent, service manager for Timaru Motors, who supplied the vehicle, said that before the accideht the steering wheel and brakes were in good order. The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to shock, following extensive abdominal injuries received by Hong Arc when the truck he was driving accidentally collided with an electric power line pole in King street.