KNOCKED DOWN BY LORRY
DEATH OF OLD MAN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, September 21. John McCready, aged 75, an inmate of the Park Island Home, was knocked down by a motor-lorry on the TaradaleNapier Road about 8.30 this morning and suffered injuries from which he died in the Napier Hospital at 11 a.m. The lorry belonging to the home was making a trip to Napier and McCready, Avlio was going to Greenmeadows, was olfered a lift. The driver put deceased down at the tarn-off on the Taradale Road and,' thinking the old man to be in a safe position, proceeded to turn tlie lorry. McCready apparently had wandered back in the lorry’s track and was knocked down. He received abrasions to his head, fractured his ribs, and suffered from shock. Haemorrhage followed, and he succumbed in hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 303, 22 September 1928, Page 6
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