FOUND INJURED ON BRIDGE
Man Believed Hit By Train ' Found lying near the Ashley (railway bridge between Ashley .and Rangiora yesterday morning. IMr Martin Ridley Pearson, of , Southbrook, is believed to have Ibeen struck by a train as he (walked across the bridge some'time on Monday night. | Mr Pearson, who is managingdirector of G. W. Pearson and (Sons, contractors, Southbrook, was .not found until 8.10 ajn. yesterIday. Mr A. F. Timms, a railway j employee, who was travelling . along the line on a jigger, found (him lying at the south-end of the bridge. | A doctor was called and Mr (Pearson was placed in the guard’s Ivan of a train and taken to the I Rangiora railway station. He was ’taken to the Christchurch Public l Hospital by St. John Ambulance ' and admitted suffering from head | injuries, a fractured pelvis, and ■ fractured leg. I His condition last evening was I described as fairly satisfactory.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28765, 10 December 1958, Page 7
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