ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

COLLISION WITH MOTOR VAN. Mavis Schlerike, aged nineteen, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital last night in a serious condition owing to head injuries received as the result of a collision with a motor van while riding a bicycle near the war memorial. FATAL COLLISION. A fatal collision occurred between a motor cyclist named Bruce Frame, aged twenty-four years, a son ot Robert Frame, of Herbert, and a sou of William Nicholson, of Hjimpden, who was riding a horse, just after dark last evening near the Hampden bridge (states a Press Association telegram). Frame was riding a motor cycle, and it is thought that his light was throwing the beams high, on account of which he did not ■ see the horse until he was on it. Frame was heavily thrown, and suffered a fractured skull, expiring about 8 o’clock. TRAIN STRIKES JIGGER. A Hamilton Association message states that a serious accident occurred oe the railway line between Rukuhia and Ohaupo at about 5 o’clock last night, when the train from Frankton struck a jigger on which were two men. Conditions were misty, and the men failed to notice the approaching train. Jack Hamilton, aged twenty five, sustained a compound fracture of the right log, and injuries to his hand and head, while Charles Sleeth, aged forty-five, had a fracture, possibly compound, of the right leg. The injured men were placed in the guard’s van of the Te Kuiti train, and conveyed to Frankton. Their condition is fair, but both are undergoing an operation in Waikato Hospital this .jrn ing.