ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

TRUCK RUNS INTO BANK INJURED DRIVER IN HOSPITAL Driving a heavily-laden motor-truck down the steep road into Sumner from Lyttelton yesterday - I SteDhen Thomson, of 22 laitoura street suffered head injuries when the truck crashed into the banking on the hill side of the road. An ambulance happened to be near at the. time The attendants, hearing the noise o the crash, immediately went to the driver s assistance and extricated him from the wrecked cabin in which he had been jammed through the body of the trucK telescoping into the engine. The accident occurred opposite the Waterfall bend, near the summit of the road Thomson was taken to me Christchurch Public Hospital. His condition last evening was reported as not serious. FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK POWER LINE DRAGGED DOWN BY FALLING BRANCH (PRESS A.BSOCIATIOS TELBGBAII.* NEW PLYMOUTH, June 3. Earl Doughty, aged was killed by an electric shock, while working on a farm near Eltham to-day. With others he was felling trees when a branch of a tree, in falling, caught in a power line and dragged a wire down. Doughty took hold of the wire to freo it, and'was killed instantly. # 'Douqhty's mother lives in Christchurch. BICYCLE AND MOTOR-VAN COLLIDE An elderly man, Mr J. Ormiston, of 282 Oxford terrace, suffered head injuries in a collision between the bicycle he was riding and a motor-van at the corner of Wilmer and Montreal streets shortly before midday yesterday. The injured man was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital. His condition last evening was reported as not serious. INJURED IN FALL DOWN STAIRS Falling down a flight of stairs, George Edward Hardy, aged 49 years, whose address was given as the Lyttelton Hotel, suffered injuries to his head and was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital after being attended by Dr. C. H. Upham at Lyttelton. His condition last evening was satisfactory.