ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22436, 24 June 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

TWO PERSONS INJURED COLLISION BETWEEN CARS AT SOCKBURN Two persons were admitted to the Christchurch Hospital last evening with head injuries suffered in a collision between two motor-cars. The condition of neither was seriovs, according tq a report from the hospital at a late hour. Those injured were James Pepper, of 29 Bligns road, Papanui, the driver of one of the cars, and Mrs G. Hills, of Coalgate, a passenger in the other vehicle. The cars met in collision at the corner of Graham’s road and Bumside road, Sockburn, shortly after 7 o’clock. One car was extensively damaged.

ONE MAN KILLED AND ONE INJURED

FALL OF EARTH AT RAILWAY DEVIATION PALMERSTON NORTH, June 23. J. B. Blenkhorn, a married man with four children, was killed, and J. Chapman, a married man with three children, was injured about the lower portion of his body and his legs, when the face of a clay bank they were working on at the Milson railway deviation fell away. They were members of a gang which was sitting having lunch under the bank at the time. It broke into something like boulders, without warnjng. Fortunately other members of the gang managed to fling themselves clear. Some of these clay boulders wmflhed several hundredweight.