ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24763, 2 January 1946, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

THREE PEDESTRIANS KILLED KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAMS IN AUCKLAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 1. Three elderly persons lost their lives in a series of tramway accidents in the last two days. All the victims were pedestrians. A man was killed in Queen street, and a woman suffered fatal injuries in Remuera road on Monday afternoon after being struck by a tram. The third fatal tramway accident occurred this iporning, when a man was knocked down in the Great South road. While crossing Queen street at the corner of Fort street on Monday afternoon, John Miltiades Hennessey, otherwise known as John Sharon and John Shannon, aged 60, a pensioner, was run over by a Ponsonby bound tram. He died instantly from multiple injuries. Also on Monday afternoon Miss Isabella Jane Hall, aged 75, of Remuera, was crossing Remuera road when she was struck by a city bound tram. She was taken to the Auckland Hospital suffering from head injuries, and she died about two hours later. The third accident occurred when Frederick William Highfield, aged 86, a retired carpenter, of Green Lane.*was struck by a tram in the Great South road this morning. Highfield was wheeling a bicycle across the road when the tram, which .was travelling toward the city, knocked him down. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries, and died in the Auckland Hospital five minutes after arriving there.

PILLION RIDER INJURED Charles R. Anderson, aged 40, of 24 Wyndham street, Papanui, was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 3 a.m. yesterday, suffering from concussion and lacerations received v-hen the motor-cycle on which he was a pillion rider collided with a cyclist on the corner of Hopkins street and Mackenzie avenue. His condition was reported to be satisfactory. INJURIES TO HAND Mr C. R. Allen, of 391 St. Asaph street, received lacerations to one of his hands when his fingers were caught in a wool-press on Monday afternoon. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 1.30 p.m., and his condition yesterday was satisfactory. ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Concussion and lacerations wer6 suffered by Walter Clarkson, aged 38, of 137 Rolleston street, Linwood, when he was involved in a motor-car accident at the corner of Fitzgerald avenue and Hereford street on Monday night. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 11.25 p.m., and his condition yesterday was satisfactory. TWO MEN INJURED When the motor-cycle on which they were riding crashed i Milton street on Monday afternoon, Clifford Gray, aged 20, of 12 Drummond street, Sydenham, and a man named Simpson, of 12 Stanley street, Sydenham, received injuries which necessitated their removal to the Christchurch Public Hospital. Simpson was treated as an out-patient, but Gray was admitted at 2.40 p.m. with a fractured leg. His condition yesterday was reported as satisfactory;