ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1035, 26 January 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

.SENSATIdNAL -MOTOR ACCIDENT. ''•■.•/•.' .•' : At>;waptj-ni..- :-'■:.' ...■'■; >.'•.;■■' (By',Telckraph— Press ' AsßOoiation.)'" ''.. ■. .-','"' '.'■. Palmorston, , January' 25.. ' A sensational: motor accident occurred this.''afternoon at Awapuni.; Mr. R- S-. Abraham, of Messrs. .Abraham and. Wil-liaras:-:Ltd.,-.wa.s . motoring : put' of Mr. ; Alan Strang's. residence, -in' Company with Mr. .Craw, aiid, just as lie got;out of the drive,- lie. found- another car. in the road. In v hastily 'endeavouring to-Jut- oil" thebrakes, the accelerator was touched, and the-car,,in, the effort' to avoid the other, dashed-through the'bridge,' and intotho big -lngoou, turning completely over as it did- so.; Fortunately,. Mr. Abraham escaped' with an injured hand, -but Mr. Crnw had a.'rib' broteri and'a bad'shaking.. Probably the circumstance of landing,in the lagoon saved both of their lives. ■ ■;-.;.,. ■'.'■•'.'■'. ■'.'.-

.'FILLED THll. LAMP'WITH BENZINE. j•. ''■':■ ' " ■'.■., Dargayiile; January 25. *; A man named Legrice, cinployed at Stewart Brothers': butter factory at Hclensvillc,-. had a narrow ' escape from a serious accident. ■ .When using a heating lamp he tilled'it with''benzine in mistake for kerosene, and'on' applying■ a.light an explosion followed. , Legrice was badly burned, .necessitating his , removal to tho Hospital. .-; . .: ~.,■' ~:.' •■.. .- CHILD: AND BOILING ATATEE.. i'.::-: "■•-,. -fe Kuiti, January 25.■', Walter Clifford'Biseman, of "Waitewheua, an eighteen months' old. child, fell , into a copper of boiling water last Friday vreek, and lingered .until. Monday night, when he died.., At an inquest this morning, at To'Kuiti,\a.verdict'of/accidental death, no. blame being attachable to anyone, was returned.. The acting-Coroner, emphasised the need for a Coroner at To.Kuiti.. - , ■ . . v .'.. GUARD'S. SKULL FKACTIJRED. ■'... , Auckland, January 25. A.serious accident happened at Mercer this afternoon to a guard named Richard Kemp, a Native, aged 20 years. He was bringing in his-train from-'tho Waikato, and while the trairi .was being run on to a siding the- guard's' van took the points/ Kemp, was .evidently 'taken unawares, and was ; thrown, out, -.his. head striking a sleeper.:; He sustained a fractured skull, and. was'brought-to Auckland to-night for treatment. . . ...- ...

THE-WRONG; MEDICINE. ... "'■ Auckland, January 25. This afternoon a married woman named Sarah Prickett took lysolin mistake for' other medicine' of a similar colour which she had just obtained from a. chemist. She .was admitted.' to. the.'hospital. .' The case is not regarded,as.serious.

A: DOSE OP LYSOL.

, ... Waihi, January 25.. , A young girl,, in service in-.a boardinghouse, took a dose of lysol, and,.in conscquonce.is now in the Hospital in a precarious condition., i ■ • - ■