SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT PETONE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 51, 29 August 1921, Page 8

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT PETONE

YOUNG MAN SEVERELY INJURED.

On Saturday evening, shortly after seven of clock, the Petone Fire' Brigade motor, collided with a young man, Mr. James Doogan, in 1 Buick-street, about thirty feet south of Jackson-street. The car, ■which had been travelling in an easterly direction along Jackson-street, turned, into Buick-street to proceed to ■the fire station. Bm'ck-street is one and a-half chains -wide, and the car. in turning • came right over, it is said, to within.. eight or nine feet of the eastern footpath; Just after Doogan had stepped off'the path, apparently with the intention of crossing diagonally to Jack-son-etr«et.- . ■ • • ; • "

The car,is alleged to have struck him, carryingl him for some feet before being pulled up. When he was extricated from beneath toe car it was seen he was badly injured, principally on the head and one leg. He was removed, to the Fire Station, where he was-attended to by Dr. Harding, and afterwards taken to a private hospital' in Wellington by the Petone ambulance van.

At the time of the' accident Mr. Doogan was accompanied by his mother, several orothers, and other relatives, and was also wheeling a perambulator containing a baby. None of the others in the party weie injured. The baby had a marvellous, escape; it wase "thrown out of the pram and picked up uninjured. Mr. Doogan resides in the city, and was before that a resident Greymouth. His' sister, Mrs. Leydon, died last week at Petone, and" he had been on a visit to his brother-in-law when the accident happened.

In connection with the affair, the driver of the car, Theodore Woodward, was arrested by the > police yesterday morning on a charge of causing actual bodily harm to James Doogan, in circumstances that if death had occurred ho would have been guilty of manslaughter. He was admitted to bail in the sum .of £300. .This .morning he appeared before Mr. Joseph Piper, \J.P., and was remanded for eight days. . ■ . The i-epoifc from the Hospital to-day was that the .patient had a fair night, but there was not much general improvement in his condition.'