ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 16051, 1 March 1916, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MOTOR CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN. A BOY KILLED AND A MAN INJURED. An Ashburton telegram states that while crossing the railway line at Tinwakl last evening a motor car occupied by Mr George Harrison, farmer, of Mayfield, and his son, Lloyd Harrison, aged eight, was struck by the second express from the south. The boy was killed instantly, and the father seriously injured. Portions of tlie car were thrown 40 yards away. J. Mulling, while working in Victoria street, Cambridge, last Thursday, was run over through a horse attached to a' trap bolting. He received fatal injuries. i A nasty accident occurred at M'Oregor's Foundry yesterday afternoon. Two men namod Charles llillstone and Edward Buxton, employees of Messrs Middlcton and Co., were replacing one of the bind wheels of a traction engine belonging to Messrs Middleton and Co, when, in some unexplained -way, the wheel fell upon them. Buxton was caught <ind crushed by it. and Rillstone, who saw it coming ana tried to save him, sustained a fractured leg. Dr Martin, who was summoned to the scene of the accident, said that Buxtonwas suffering from a badly splintered bip. The wfieel weighed " in the vicinity of 30cwt, and they had . a wonderful escape from fatal injuries.