Freak accident cost life

Press, 27 October 1982, Page 39

Freak accident cost life

PA Wellington Horrified friends could not save a Miramar woman from bleeding to death after a freak accident at a bowling club working bee earlier this year, the Coroner’s Court in Wellington has been told. Patricia Joan Shore, aged 59, died from loss of blood after she tripped on a piece or reinforcing steel and fell on to a casserole dish she was carrying at the Miramar Bowling Club on August 7. The Coroner, Mr A. D. McGregor, said that a piece of the broken dish severed an artery in Mrs Shore’s neck. In a sworn statement .before the Court, the club’s vice-president, Mrs Catherine Grover, described the working bee. Soon before 3 p.m. most people had gone home and Mrs Shore was working in the kitchen area. All the rubbish tins had been cleaned, and so Mrs Shore took a casserole dish full of rubbish to an incinerator opposite the clubhouse.

“I heard her call. ‘Cath. help, help me.’ I got to her and it was then I noticed all the blood. “She looked at me but did not say anything. I started screaming for someone to call an ambulance. Other people rushed over and tried to stop the bleeding with towels. 1 went into the clubrooms. I couldn't stand it." Mrs Grover said. Mrs Shore was dead when ambulancemen arrived a short time later. The Coroner said it was a clear case of death by misadventure. and a sad end to a working bee.