CRASH INTO POST

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 239, 6 July 1931, Page 10

CRASH INTO POST

Motor-cyclist Killed NEWTOWN FATALITY Police Seek Witnesses Crashing into a lamp post at the corner of Constable Street and Coromandel Street in the early hours of yesterday morning, George Rhynd Duncan, 21 Chelsea Street, Miramar, laundryman, was flung from his motor-cycle, and killed. Mr. Duncan, who was a single man, aged 26, and who had been employed at Wellington Hospital for the past 11 years, was on his .way homeward when the accident occurred. On the corner opposite to that at which the fatality took place a motor-car was parked, and Immediately after the crash a man came out of the car and picked up the Injured man, whose skull was fractured. The ambulance was also summoned and removed him to the hospital, where it was found that he had succumbed. ' Before the accident Mr. Duncan stopped at the corner of Riddiford Street and Constable Street, and spoke to some young men. Neither they nor the man who picked the Injured man up are known by the police, who wish to obtain an account of the accident from them.

TWO WOMEN INJURED

Accident to-Car

. Thr,ee young women, visitors to Wellington, were sitting in a baby car parked opposite the band rotunda at Oriental Bay about 1.45 on Saturday afternoon, when their car was struck from behind by another car. Pushed forward, and on to the footpath, the smaller car flung down the guard surrounding one of the trees on the parade, and smashed the tree. The rear part of the car was severely damaged. , Its occupants were Miss A. Donald and Miss M. Donald, Lansdowne, Masterton, and Miss J. Lilburne, St. John’s Hill, Wanganui Miss A. Donald suffered a lacerated wound to the scalp, and severe shock, and the other two women, shock. All were attended to by a nearby doctor, and Miss A. Donald and Miss Lilburne were taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.