ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26094, 22 April 1950, Page 8

ACCIDENTS

MAN DIES FROM INJURIES THOUGHT TO HAVE FALLEN FROM TRAIN (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 21. Found lying beside the railway tracks at Ava station last night, Harold William Lee, aged 58, of Wellington, was rushed by ambulance to the Lower Hutt Hospital, where he died two hours later. He received internal injuries as the result of falling, it is believed, from a train while he was alighting at the station, DEATH OF ELDERLY MAN Struck by motor-car (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 21. A man was fatally injured when he was struck by a motor-car in Symonds street just before midday to-day. He was Robert Brown Ryder, aged 83, a retired school inspector, of Grafton road. Ryder was taken to the Auckland Hospital, but died at 1.15 p.m. LOCOMOTIVE FALLS INTO TURNTABLE PIT ’ From Our Own Reporter . GREYMOUTH, April 21. When it was left unattended on a siding at the Greymouth locomotive sheds to-day. a railway engine began to move slowly forward and after a short run nose-dived gently into the turntable pit. The pit is five feet deep and the engine remained finely balanced on the edge with its cowcatcher almost touching the bottom and its tender high in the air. A railwayman who saw the locomotive moving jumped into the cab in an attempt to put it into reverse He was still in the cab when the engine overran the edge of the pit. Had the engine not remained balanced on the edge it could have been damaged and its removal would have been a big job. Jacks were used to lever up the nose of the locomotive and another engine attached at the rear steamed ahead to ease it back on to the rails. The work of restoring the locomotive took just over one hour.

Two engines which had just completed their runs from Otira had to be sent 25 miles to Hokitika to use the turntable there so that they could take over the evening services.