ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 14

ACCIDENTS

CYCLIST KILLED IN COLLISION KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR AT INTERSECTION "When a car collided with the bicycle he was riding, Joseph Quinn, of Loburn, was killed instantaneously at the corner of Marshland and Guthrie s roads, shortly after 6 o’clock last evenirlThe car was driven by Mr K. G. Webley, of Christchurch, who was travelling toward Kaiapoi. explosion at homer TUNNEL* TWO WORKERS INJURED WHEN TAMPING GELIGNITE (PRESS ASSOCIATION teleobam.) INVERCARGILL, February 24. Two men employed by the Public Works Department at the Homer tunnel, Hollyford, have been admitted to the’ Southland Hospital suffering from facial injuries received during blasting outside the tunnel yesterday morning They were Edward Rask, a single man, aged 33. of 135 Spey street, Invercargill, and a married man, of Invercargill. Rask and his companion .were engaged at the foot of the hill outside the tunnel plugging a hole with gelignite in preparation for blasting rock. One of them was tamping the plug, when the gelignite suddenly exploded in the faces of the men and knocked them over. The assistance of others working nearby was available, and as soon as the injured men had been given first aid they were brought to the Southland Hospital in the camp ambulance. , No damage was caused to the tunnel and the injuries to the men, though painful, are superficial. One suffered a cut over an eye and both have facial abrasions, CAR FALLS OYER HIGH BANK OCCUPANTS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE rrBSJa, ASSOCIATION TELEJBAM.) GREYMOUTH, February 24. A fortunate escape from serious injury was made by six occupants of a touring car, which fell more than 30ft from the road to the railway line at Dobson Bluff near Dobson, this evening. A fault developed in the steering gear and the car plunged over a high bank, hitting the concrete railway embankment. It landed upside down on the line. The occupants, J. Dunshea (the driver), . Mesdames Young and Chapman, all of Waiuta, and three young children, including a two-year-old baby, were thrown in all directions, mostly into blackberries at the roadside. Except for cuts and slight abrasions received by Mrs Young and one child, no one was injured. ELDERLY MAN KILLED RUN OVER BY ENGINE (PRESS association VELEOEAM.I GREYMOUTH, February 24. Shocking injuries were received by an old-aged pensioner, Watson Mitchell, at the Stillwater railway yards about 6 o’clock this evening, death ensuing in a few minutes. Mitchell, who was aged 80, resided in a hut across the railway yards at Stillwater, and he was taking a short cut across the. tracks when he was run over by a shunting engine. He was believed to be deaf and probably did not notice the engine approaching. Mitchell, who had no relatives, was probably the oldest West Coast coachdriver living in the district.