HIT-AND-RUN ACCIDENT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29165, 28 March 1960, Page 12

HIT-AND-RUN ACCIDENT

Boy Injured In Bealey Avenue A motorist struck and injured a 12-year-old boy in Bealey avenue on Saturday evening and then made off at high speed After striking the boy. who was wheeling a bicycle as he crossed the road just behind his mother ’he driver momentarily lost control of the car. and it apneared that it would crash into the row of trees along the middle of the avenue. The car travelled east along Bealey avenue and almost overturned when it made a fast turn into Whitmore avenue. A police car which arrived at the scene of the accident, a little later, had the siren going when it gave chase to the car. but it was not found. The accident occurred at the intersection of Geraldine street The boy. Arthur George Chisnail of 33 Geraldine street, and his mother. Mrs M. Chisnail, were walking across the avenue from south to north in single file, wheeling their bicycles. They were crossing the northern section of the avenue when the car, which was estimated to be travelling at 45 miles an hour by persons whom it passed, bore down on them. It just missed Mrs Chisnail. who screamed when it struck her son The boy was taken to the Christchurch Hospital and treated at the casualty department for scalp lacerations, and was then sent home. The first Impact of the car was taken by the boy’s bicycle, which was wrecked. Members of the motor accident inquiry branch at the Central Police Station want to interview the driver of the car or any persons who saw the accident or who know the name of the driver. The car is believed to be a 1936 or 1937 Ford coupe, painted cream.