ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fBX TBLEGBAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, 2nd May. A serious accident occurred at Wai-koua-iti, about 5 p.m. to-day. As Mrs. Bannatyne, who was .accompanied by her parents, was driving along the road a motor cycle, ridden by the Rev. J. Sommerville, of Palmerston, collided with, the buggy, which was capsized. The occupants of the buggy received a number of cuts and bruises, but Mr. Sommerville fared the worst. He was unconscious when picked up, and had not recovered consciousness two hours later. INVERCARGrLL, 2nd May. At an inquest on Arthur William Mitchell, who was killed as the result of a collision! with a taxicab on Saturday night, the jury found that death was due to a collision, but that, in view of the contradictory , nature of the evidence, they were unable to say how the accident occurred. The jury were of opinion, however, that the cab driver-com-mitted an error of judgment in not immediately applying the brakes after the collision with the cyclist. WOODVILLEr 2 nd Mav ' This afternoon a man named Jack Keegan, employed as a billiard-marker at the Club Hotel, dropped down dead at the Commercial Hotel. The deceased is well-known in the Wairarapa..