A CAR ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 5

A CAR ACCIDENT.

'I.;-":.-,..MAN-FBACTURES HIS LEG. At about 10.15 p.m.- on, Saturday, as car No. 41' bound, from Miramnr to the Government S&tidUt' wns ' travelling along Manners Street lihd'iwrts''nearly-opposite the Clarendon Hotel, a'-'iiinn named Henry Deo left the footpath and attempted 10 board tho car. Ine conductor (T E. Allen), who. was standing on Hie side step collcctingfares.saw the man coming,, and whim-he was sum. that he meant-.to board the car (which Vas travelling at the.rate of about eight or uino miles an hour), ho reached for the bell, and gave the emergency signal (live nuick short-rings).' Aβ he did so;- Dee grabbed tho,' hindmost brass handle, arid , ' putting his wrong' fODt. on the step (the left), it was jerked olf again, and as he hung on by theliandlo his legji swung inwards, aud came in violent contact witli-'tlie- -.inder-gear nf the car, which extends 'beyond the end of the slop, with the result that, his left leg was .fmotured nt the knee, and"his-thigh was severely out. Immediately on 'receiving the. emergency .signal, fbe motormaii' (Richard Hall) reversed tho driving Rear, pulling the car up wilh a ]crk in about three or'four yards. Deo, who is a single man, residing at 17 Constable Street, was taken to the Hospital on an ambulance, summoned for tho purpose. . ■There, is no stopping place within a hundred yards or more of where the attompt was made : to:l>nard the moving car, and such acts, under the;circumstances related, may be expected ti result-in uccident on more- occasions than not.