ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY A MOTOR-CAR. (BY TELEGRAFH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 21st October. The circumstances connected with the death' of Thomas Clemond Thorpe, who was knocked down by a motor-car and killed on Sunday, were investigated by the Coroner to-day. The accident occurred on the Mangere-road, a group of youths being overtaken by a taxicab, one of them, the deceased, being knocked down and fatally injured. The Coroner's finding was: "That deceased died on Sunday afternoon, the cause of death being injuries received through being struck and run over by a motorcar driven by one George Hopkins, and that the said George Hopkins was guilty of: (1) Trying to pass too close to the deceased when thero was ample room, and (2) giving insufficient warning of his approach." FATAL FALL OVER CLIFF. STRATFORD, 21st October. C. F. Francis, a worker at the Mount Egmont Metal Quarries, met with his death to-day by falling over a cliff, a distance of 150 feet. He , had been working on the job a month, but little is known of him. The body was brought by train from Waipuku, and an inquest will be held on Thursday. MOTORIST'S~ARM BROKEN. ASHBURTON, 21st October. A youth named Allen Smith, of Springburn, while endeavouring to start a motor-car this morning, had his right arm fractured. At Hinds yesterday a young man, a resident of Ashburton, met with a similar accident, and another that occurred in the district, states a local medical man, makes the third fractured limb in the Ashburton county through the same cause since yesterday morning, and the fourth within a month.