CRASHED TO DEATH

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 8

CRASHED TO DEATH

Woman’s Jump From Roof

Garden (By Telegraph,—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 11. Crashing from the parapet of the roof garden on top of the fifth story of the building ,of John Court, Limited, into Queen Street, a woman, aged about 35, was killed instantly this afternoon, i She was not identified late tonight. Clearing the verandah of a shop which protrudes about 12ft., the woman fell in the roadway between the tramway safety zone and the footpath outside the lower entrance of John. Court’s premises. , ■ She narrowly, missed striking passengers alighting at the zone from a tramcar. She received a fractured’neck, a broken 'leg, and other injuries. Witnesses in the crowded street said they saw the woman climb on to the parapet .of the roof garden and stand there for a few seconds grasping a wooden support and : facing, Queen Street. Then, without further warning she crashed into the street. In the course of her fall the woman struck and broke the supporting wire between the tramway overhead wires, and the building. Tram traffic’was not delayed, however,’ an offi-' cial directing trams past the broken wire. <