FATAL INJURIES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 10

FATAL INJURIES

Woman Tram Passenger Knocked to Roadway STRUCK BY CENTREPOLE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 12. Shocking injuries to her head, which proved fatal an hour later, were received by Mrs. Yvonne Wheadon, aged 28, when she came into violent contact with a centrepole while standing on the "front step of a tramcar in Pitt Street this evening. The conductor of the tramcar said that Mrs. Wheadon and her two children boarded the car at Point Chevalier. When the tram reached the Point Chevalier Theatre, the children left the car to go to the pictures, and their mother continued the trip toward the city. •‘As we were coming down Pitt Street, the woman, who was in the front half of the tram,, suddenly left her seat and hurried toward the front platform,” said the conductor. “She looked over the chain on the right-hand side of the platform and- stood for a moment on the step. She was immediately struck violently against the centrepole and knocked from the step ou to the roadway.” M>i. Wheadon was suffering gravehead injuries, and died in the hospital. She is survived by her husband and two children.

Her husband left Home for a camp in the country this morning. The children, who arc young, are being cared for by friends.