LORRY RUNS OVER BANK

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 12

LORRY RUNS OVER BANK

♦ Man Killed Near Goalgate OCCUPANTS PINNED UNDER VEHICLE One man was killed instantaneously, and another injured, when a motorlorry left the Coalgate-Sheffield road five miles from Coalgate and somersaulted over a steep bank about 1.45 yesterday afternoon. The man killed was Mr George K. Crysell, married, aged 70 years, of Gust, who suffered terrible head injuries, including a fractured skull. The driver of the lorry, Arthur Reginald Forbes, married, also living at Gust, suffered from wounds and abrasions to the head and body, but he was not seriously hurt. Forbes who was accompanied by Crysell, was driving the motor-lorry along the road near the Bonanza mine when, after turning round a bend, the lorry left the wheel tracks on the road. After recovering its position it shot straight across to the other side of the road, where it somersaulted over a steep bank, coming to rest against a wire fence about 12 feet below the road. . , The driver of another motor-lorry, who passed shortly afterwards, noticed the overturned vehicle and, hearing moans from underneath it, quickly obtained the help of several miners to lift the overturned vehicle, under which the two occupants were pinned, Crysell appeared to have been killed instantaneously. Forbes was attended to by Dr. Aylward, of Coalgate. Crysell’s body was taken to Goalgate, where an inquest was. opened by the Coroner, Mr H. A. Young, last evening. Evidence of identification was given by Forbes, and the inquest was adjourned sine die. TWO MEN KILLED FALL OF SHINGLE IN PIT ACCIDENT NEAR WHAKATANE i (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WHAKATANE, June 2. Two men were killed in the Matata gravel pit, 17 miles from Whakatane, this morning. The victims were: Dan Lees, a single man, aged 45, an employee of the Whakatane County Council, and E. L. Mason, a married man, aged 30, with four children. After the 10 a.ra. “smoko” several men climbed to the top of the pit to loosen the shingle, Lees and Mason remaining in the pit to load a truck. When the men went back into the pit at lunch time they discovered that there had been a slip. There was no s gn of Lees and Mason The men at once communicated witn :he county office and 20 men. working in limited space, uncovered the bodies about 2 p.m. Mason’s neck was broken and Lees had apparently died of suffocation. ELDERLY CYCLIST INJURED COLLISION WITH CAR IN VICTORIA STREET An elderly man, C. M. Mason, of 858 Colombo street, suffered head injuries when, while riding a bicycle in Victoria street about 6 o’clock last evening, he collided with a motor-car near the bridge. He was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital in a St. John Ambulance and admitted. His condition last night was reported not to be serious. BOY INJURED WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL Stanley Tavendale, aged 13, of 121 Harper street. Sydenham, suffered injuries to an elbow, while playing football in Sydenham Park yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by a St. John ambulance, and was treated as an outpatient. _____