WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 77, 24 December 1928, Page 12

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

SMASH AT LEVEL CROSSING MOTORIST SEVERELY INJURED On Saturday afternoon Mr. J. A. Grimwood, of 32 I’harazyn Street, Lower Hutt, was driving his ear over the second railway crossing north of the Lower Hutt Station when his engine stalled. He endeavoured to start the car again before the approach of a train, but was unable to do so with the result that the oncoming engine could not be pulled up in time and crashed into the car. The motor was badly damaged and Mr. Grimwood, the only person in it, received injuries to the back and a fractured leg. The Free Ambulance went out to attend to the injured man but he had been taken away in a private car before its arrival. Two people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a motor-cycle driven by A. W. Lewis, who resides at the Mansions Private Hotel, skidded at the corner of Webb and Hopper Streets. Mr. Lewis sustained a dislocated left shoulder and abrasions, while Miss J. Eteveneaux, the passenger on the cycle, received a dislocated left shoulder and abrasions, and also suffered from concussion. Both the injured people were attended to by the Free Ambulance and were removed to the hospital. While working on the waterfront on Saturday afternoon, '.7. Cunningham, who resides at G 1 Hopper Street, was struck by a bar of iron which fell from a sling. He sustained abrasion to both legs. After being attended to by a doctor he was taken to his home by the Free Ambulance.

While bathing at Day’s Bay yesterday afternoon, R. P. Cameron, a clerk, residing at 27 Ngaio Road, Kelburn, injured himself through diving in too shallow water. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance, and taken to his home suffering from injury to the neck and slight concussion. J. Daly, aged 70, who resides at Seddon Street, Wallaceyille, received injuries to his left shoulder through falling on a tree stump on Saturday evening. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance and removed to the hospital.