MANY ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 6

MANY ACCIDENTS

ONE FATAL COLLISION

Of the many accidents in Wellington and the Hutt Valley over the weekend, one was fatal. Mr. Albert Lionel Wilson, aged about 40, of 11 Aya Street, Petone,, was killed in a collision. between his bicycle arid a railways bus at the corner of Woburn Road and Ward Street, Lower Hutt, at 8 pjn. on Saturday. ;

Mr. H. Harker, carpenter, of 24 Roy Street, dislocated his left elbow in a fall on a footpath at 6.40 this morning. ' ■

Maxwell Thomas Turnbull, a student, of 15 Awarua Street, Ngaio, collided with a car when he was cycling down Raroa Road on Saturday afternoon. He suffered concussion, a lacerated wound on the face, and abrasions.

Mrs. I. Sykes, of Frankton, received head injuries, shock, ana a fractured left wrist in" a fall from a window at the People's Palace at 11.30 p.m. on Saturday. .

Mrs. F. Wood, of 17 Byron Street, Miramar, was bruised about the head and received concussion when she fell from ; a tram at Miramar at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday.

Mr. J. Moore, labourer, of Heretaunga, was knocked down by a '".truck on the main road at Heretaunga at 6.40 p.m. on Saturday, and suffered head injuries and abrasions.

Margaret Meldon, a child, of 66 Creswick Terrace, Northland, fractured her left leg in a fall off a roundabout at the Botanical Gardens yesterday* afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Four footballers were taken to hospital on Saturday. Mr. M.R. Hocking, 6 Murphy Street, received a lacerated, wound to his knee, and Mr. E. Ashton, 12 Buick Street, Petone, face injuries and concussion, both at Wakefield Park. At the Polo Ground, Mr. D. A. Black, of 21 Kent Terrace, suffered a fractured lower jaw, and John Hall, 23 Thompson Street, broke •a collarbone when playing at Wellington College. ';-.

All the injured persons were taken to hospital by the Wellington Pre*» Ambulance.'