ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22370, 6 April 1938, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

TAXI-DRIVER KILLED COLLISION WITH TRUCK (JfRXSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) TE AWAMUTU, April 5. W. Elliott, a taxi-driver, of Otorohanga, was killed in a motor collision on the Main South road a few miles south of Kihikihi this afternoon. The taxi collided with a metal truck which had emerged from a side road. Two passengers in the taxi were injured, but not seriously. SLEEP-WALKER’S DEATH ARM WOUNDED BY WINDOW GLASS (PBXSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, April 5. An unusual accident befell a single man, Trevor Gerard, aged 25. employed on a road contract at Te Wera, near Matawai, who died in the Cook Hospital this morning from a severed artery as a result of walking in his sleep. . ’ The occupants 'of his house were wakened in the early hours of yesterday morning on hearing the sound of crashing glass. There was a big dole in a window. Gerard was found at the front door, apparently still walking in his sleep. He was bleeding profusely from a severe wound on the fleshy par t of an arm, which he had apparently put through the glass window. He was taken to the Cook Hospital last evening, but died this morning. MAGISTRATE INJURED MR H. P. LAWRY’S CAR STRUCK BY LORRY (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 5. Mr H. P. Lawry, the Magistrate, was slightly injured about the head and hands when a lorry struck his car in Lower Hutt. The car was badly damaged,. Mr Lawry, who was on his way to the station, was able to continue after receiving medical attention. FATAL INJURIES CYCLIST FALLS FROM ROAD (press association telegram.) DUNEDIN, April 5. Injuries from which he later were suffered by a married man, John Young, aged 24, living at Ocean View, near Brighton, when the bicycle he was riding apparently left the main Brighton road, near Big Rock corner, to-night, and caused him to fall down a bank about 10 feet high. The accident was not seen by anyone, and the first intimation of the tragedy came when three women, who were walking along the pathway towards Big Rock about 6.45 p.m., found the injured man lying beside his bicycle on the grassy path, which was about 10 feet below the main road. He was alive when first discovered, but died shortly afterwards. An inquest will be held. KICKED BY HORSE y MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED Kicked by a horse while he was unyoking it from a dray yesterday afternoon, E. Ettrick, a middle-aged man, employed in the yards of the Christchurch City Council, suffered severe head injuries. He cas taken by a St. John Ambulance to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where his condition late last evening was reported to be serious. . 'Ettrick is a married man. his home being at 241 Lyttelton street.