CHILD KILLED
Dash Into Roadway STRUCK BY LORRY Driver’s Vision Obscured Dashing out of a fish and chip shop and into the roadway in Cambridge Terraco shortly after noon yesterday, Louis Eyre, aged 6, and jiving at 156 Oriental Bay, was knocked down by a motor-lorry, and received injuries from which lie died shortly afterward. The boy, who was attending the Clyde Quay Infant School, in Elizabeth Street, bad been to the shop to buy his lunch. When he came out a parked motor-car prevented him from seeing the approaching lorry, and it also obscured the lorry driver's view, so that he did not see the child about to cross the road. As the boy ran out into the road from behind the car the driver of the lorry, John Dedreich Englert, saw him and swerved to the right, but was unable to avoid knocking him down. One wheel of the lorry, which was owned by McGowan and Magee, passed over him. The child suffered a broken jaw and a fractured skull. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was an only child, and his father is out of Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 9
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195CHILD KILLED Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 9
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