ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CROSSING SMASHES

Tho level railway crossing close to tlawera station was tho scene of a fatal accident- about 6 o’clock on Saturday evening, when the express tiain from Wellington collided with a wagon driven by George Appleyard, a farmer living on tho outskirts of the town. Appleyard was severely injured, and died before reaching tho hospital. One of tho horses was slightly injured, but tho other broke away when tho engine struck tho wagon, which was wrecked and piled up on the cattle stop. A collision occurred at the Colombo street railway crossing, Christchurch, on Saturday evening between a motor ear and a shunting engine. The forepart of the motor was badly damaged, and tho wind screen was smashed, but the occupants, _of whom there were four, escaped injury. The motorist states that he saw, tho crossingkeeper’s signal, but tho brakes slipped, and the car had sufficient pace to carry it to tho line.

MOTOE CYCLIST INJURED. As a result of a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car at a street intersection in Mnsterton on Saturday afternoon, a man named Edward John Anstis, aged thirty-four, of Martinborough, was admitted to the hospital It is believed that hia hip is broken. CHILD EATS SW 7 EETS POISONED FOR RATS. An inquest into the, circumstances surrounding the death of Raymond Frederick .Webb, aged two years and a-half, who died in Invercargill Hospital after eating sweets smeared with rat poison, was held on Saturday. A verdict was returned that death had been accidentally caused by eating chocolates covered with strychnine, which was intended to destroy rats.