FATAL ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 10

FATAL ACCIDENT

GAR LEAVES ROAD

WELL-KNOWN TRAMWAYMAN KILLED

A very well-known Wellington tramway official, Mr. John Dwyer, of 111 Creswick Terrace/ Wellington, was killed instantly when a motor-car ran off the road shortly before midnight last night between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu. Mr. Dwyer was tramway dispatch officer at Lambton Station, having occupied this position for 30 years/ and in this capacity was widely known to the travelling public. He was about 59 years of age.

Two others in the motor-car were injured. Mr. Alexander Adcock, of 246 Sutherland Road, a tramway motbrman, suffered shock, a fractured left arm, and an injury to the back. Shock, facial injuries, and bruises about the body were received by Mr. Ernest John Reilly, of Perth, Western Australia, residing at 111 Creswick Terrace.

The car was;being driven towards Wellington from the Woodville races, which the occupants, had attended. About 11.45 p.m. it left the road, when about a mile north of McKay's Crossing, between Paekakariki and Paraparaumu. The car struck a telegraph post, and finished up in the ditch. Morris Raymond Adcock, of 246 Sutherland Road, Lyall .Bay, who was driving, had a miraculous escape from injury.

The two injured men were taken on to a doctor's residence by a passing motorist, and were taken from there to the Wellington Hospital by the Free Ambulance. Their injuries are reported today to be not of a very serious nature and their condition was slightly better.

Mr. Dwyer's body was brought into Paekakariki early this morning, and an inquest is to be held this afternoon before Mr. G. H. Harper, the local Coroner. The car, which* was extensively damaged,.was removed late this morning. Mr. D. McGillivray, tramways traffic manager, said this y afternoon that he had learned with much regret of Mr. Dwyer's death. Owing to his long service as dispatch officer at Lambton, Mr. Dwyef had become almost as well known to the public during the last thirty years as that part of Lambton Quay. Throughout that long period he has been stationed at this point to direct trams, assist passengers to board and alight, and to start the trams off. He had come originally from Tasmania.