ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23917, 8 April 1943, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

GUARD KILLED RUN OVER BY ENGINE (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 7. An accident during shunting operations in the Waitara railway station yard at 6.30 a.m. to-day caused the death of a guard. The guard was Samuel Victor Kiddie, aged 41, married, with two children. He lived at Waitara.

Kiddie was riding on the left side of the front cow-catcher of an engine and is 'believed to have been crossing over to the opposite side while the engine was in motion. He slipped and fell in front of the engine. The left wheel of the front bogie passed over his body. Kiddie was dragged for about 68 yards before the engine was stopped. He died in a few minutes. He had 20 years’ service in the Railways Department. He was transferred to Waitara from Taihape. AIRMAN PILOT KILLED CRASH NEAR SOUTH ISLAND STATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 7. An airman pilot under training, Leading Aircraftsman John Ross Hadley, whose father is Mr C. J. Hadley, of Amberley, lost his life in an aircraft accident near a South Island station on Tuesday afternoon when his aircraft crashed during solo flying training. DEATH FOLLOWS INJURIES (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, April 7. Sergeant Marjorie Stout, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, who was admitted to the Southland Hospital on Monday suffering from severe injuries received when the truck she was driving was struck by a train at a level crossing, died at noon to-day. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED (P.A.) DARGAVILLE, April 7. After a collision between a led horse and a motor-car a passenger In the car, a njyaL rating, £eg J,, Serrup, was admitted tp the.Nortiiern wa'iroa Hospital suffering-front a matured col. lar bone, and a fracture of the base of the skull. His condition is serious. INJURIES TO BACK .

Injuries to his back were suffered yesterday by Michael Turner, of Moorhouse avenue, when he slipped and fell at Stacey and Hawker’s bakery, Essex street, Linwood. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where his condition is reported to be satisfactory.