Boy falls 150ft
A 16-year-old boy is seriously ill in Christchurch Hospital after falling about 150 ft down a cliff on the Summit Road, Port Hills, about 2 p.m. yesterday.
He is Andrew Campbell Hickmott, of 38 Merivale Lane, Merivale. He suffered severe head injuries, and was taken to hospital by St John Ambulance.
His condition last evening was poor.
The accident happened about two miles from the Sign of the Kiwi near the Sign of the Bellbird. The boy fell while trying to climb the cliff face.
He was climbing over a hill from a path which leads off the Summit Road and had told his father and sister, who were with him, that he would continue over the hill and meet them back at their car parked on the road. Seeing no sign of his son after half an hour, Mr Hickmott climbed to the top of the hill from the road. He looked down the cliff and saw his son lying on the path below.
He ran back to the car and his daughter drove to the Sign of the Kiwi to call an ambulance. St John ambulance men carried the boy from the path in a stretcher, and he was rushed to hospital.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34058, 23 January 1976, Page 1
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