ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23752, 25 September 1942, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

THREE PERSONS INJURED AT SUMNER LORRY OUT OF CONTROL ON EVANS PASS ROAD Three persons were injured and taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by ambulance, and another passenger and the driver received minor injuries when a three-ton motor-truck, driven by Mr Jack William Beaumont (Redcliffs), got out of control on the Evans Pass road, on the return trip from Lyttelton last evening. Eric Yates, aged five, of 4 Campbell street, Sumner, suffered concussion, and two other passengers, Robin Beaumont and Neil McCormack, were treated in the out-patients’ department. It was state J last night that Yates’s condition was satisfactory. The driver, Mr Beaumont, sen., received cuts on the hands. Mr Ernest Merritt, step-father of Eric Yates, who was also a passenger, escaped without injury. The lorry, which had a full load of crates of empty bottles, got out of control on the top of the pass, when the driver attempted to change gears to second. Although the brakes were applied fully, the lorry quickly gained speed, the driver managing to keep the car on the road until he reached the foot of the hill near the School for the Deaf. There he swerved the lorry to a side road on his right and ran into a live hedge, WRIST FRACTURED When she slipped and fell at her home yesterday, Mrs N. S. Logie, of 44 Thorrington street, Cashmere, received a fractured wrist. She was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. KNOCKED DOWN BY TRUCK Mr' George Miller, aged 51, of 120 Breeze’s road, suffered concussion when he was knocked down by a truck in Hereford street yesterday. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. His condition last night was said to be satisfactory. CHILD’S DEATH AT OAMARU (0.R.) OAMARU, September 24. Desmond Arthur Beyer, six weeks’ old son of Mr and Mrs Frederick Beyer (Wansbeck street, Oamaru) died suddenly at Oamaru this morning. The child was fed at 10 o’clock last night, and his mother went in to see him about 2 o’clock this morning. The child looked ill and was rigid, so Mrs Beyer

took him to a neighbour’s place, and Dr. E. E. Butler was called. Before 1 the doctor arrived the child had died. An inquest for purposes of identification was held late this afternoon before the District Coroner (Mr A. W. Woodward, J.P.), and was adjourned sine die.