Boy killed outside home

Press, 31 October 1977, Page 1

Boy killed outside home

The police are investigating a motor accident in which a boy was killed early last evening. The police say he was standing on the footpath outside his Fitzgerald Avenue home at the time. He was GUY ROBERT DAVISON, aged 13, of 242 Fitzgerald Avenue. The accident occurred at the northern end of Fitzgerald Avenue, near Harvey Terrace. A car left the road and mounted the footpath, struck the boy and his cycle and hit and broke a lamppost while travelling

along the footpath, before stopping, say the police. The boy was carried 20 metres along the footpath by the car before it struck the lamppost. The car was a write-off. Two St John ambulances attended after getting a call at 5.51 p.m. The driver of the car, Mr .1. S. Eitis, of 26 Percy Street, Linwood, who Is about 25. suffered abrasions to the head and was knocked unconscious. He was treated and discharged from the Christchurch Hospital and later interviewed by the police.