A TRAGIC RIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 10

A TRAGIC RIDE

MAN AND CHILD KILLED

(By Telegraph-^Press, Association.) BLENHEIM, October 23. A young man and his infant nephew are .dead as the result of the capsize of a light motor-truck in Opawa Street on the outskirts of the borough at 8 o'clock this morning. The victims were Kelvin Clive Hodson, aged 24, single, Public Works employee, a son of Mr. Joseph Hodson, and Gary Harrison, the 2£-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Harrison, Aniseed. Mr. Hodson and the Harrisons, who are engaged in the work on the South Main Trunk railway at the Aniseed camp, were spending the weekend in Blenheim at the homes of their parents, and the accident was a tragic ending to a ride round the block, which Mr. Hodson was giving to his young nephew. No one witnessed the .tragedy, which occurred on a straight, 'flat road. Tlie vehicle appeared to have travelled 50 or, 60 yards along the grass verge before striking a hummock, which catapulted it into the air. Indications are that, the truck projected itself twelve feet through the air before crashing head-on into the roadway.and capsizing.- : J The driver,, who was flung clear; received a broken neck and other in- - juries, death being instantaneous. The little boy was removed from the crushed cab with terrible injuries* and succumbed shortly after admission to v^spital.