ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 257, 25 July 1921, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

- SEVERAL DURING THE WEEK-END MAN KILLED THROUGH FALL FROM TRAM-CAR During the week end several accidents occurred in tho city, the most serious being that in which a man fell from a tramcar in Courtenay Place, at the corner of Taranaki Street, and was killed. The accident occurred at a few minutes after noon on Saturday. The man, whose name is believed to b« John Finlay (from pajiers found upon him), was a passenger on an eastward-bound Lyall Bay car. He evidently unshed to get off at the Taranaki Street stopping-place, but waited until the car was in motion again. He then stepped off the footboard whilst facing the way opposite to that in which the car was proceeding. He fell, and his head struck portion of the old disused tram-rail a few feet away, his skull being fractured. Tho unfortunate man was picked up and conveyed to the side of the road and laid on the wood-blocks. The police appeared on the scene, but it was fully a quarter of an hour before either a doctor or ambulance was secured. When Dr. Palmer arrived he examined the man and said that ‘hough life was not then quite extinct, Ihe man was dying. A few minutes afterwards death ensued, and the body was removed by the police to the morgue. A telegraph messenger, who was among tho crowd, stated that he saw the man fall from the car, and thought the deceased had attempted to jump off the car whilst facing the "wrong” way. Tho deceased is believed to be an hotel worker, but whether he belonged to Wellington or not could not be ascertained, last night. The victim was a man of about 60 years of age, rather stout, and rubicund in complexion, with a white moustache. MOTOR ACCIDENT. A serious motor accident occurred on Saturday evening, when a taxi-cab returning to the Wairarapa from the Wel-lington-Springbok football match went over a gully on the Rimutaka Hill. The car was being driven by Frank Dennes, a taxi-owner of Greytown, and about two miles on the Wellington side of the Summit, it skidded and crashed, down a gully, falling 50 feet. There were ten passengers in the car, but only one was hurt. This was Thompson Turei, whose spine was injured. He was taken to the Greytown Hospital and lies there now in a critical condition. The other passengers were not seriously hurt, but nre suffering from shock and bruises. The car, a Hudson super-six, was damaged. RAILWAY SHUNTER INJURED. the third accident took place at the Thorndon Station, on Saturday, when a shunter, John Johnston, was knocked down bv a locomotive, receiving injuries to his back. He was admitted te the hospital, where he is progressing satisfactorily. MOTOR-CARS COLLIDE.

Two motor-cars collided near Heretaanga. on the Hutt Road shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, with the result that one of them had its bonnet badly damaged. No one was injured.