ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20610, 9 October 1930, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BIDING HOME TO BIRTHDAY j PARTY. Fractures of tie forearm and wrist, and three fractures of one leg were suffered -by a young man named Brian Rowe when themotor cycle he was riding collided head on with'another., motor cycle ridden by Kenneth Mar-' tin, of New Plymouth, at Fitzrov yesterday. Martin escaped practically unscathed. The collision occurred just over a rise. Rowe was riding, to attend his twenty-first birthday at his home. MEMORY A BLANK. While an inquest on the victim of a motor cycle accident was proceeding the rider of the machine which caused the death was haviug afternoon tea.: This was admitted by Lawson John August, aged twenty-one, an insurance collector, before the coroner 'Mr JK.Page, S.M.), at Wellington, when an inquiry into the death of Edmund Francis Blake was resumed. It was stated at earlier proceedings that August’s mind was a, blank and that he was unable to give evidence. Ha said he could not remember starting our/ nor could ho recall anything concerning the accident. The coroner returned a formal verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, refraining from comment in view of the xtoesibility of civil proceedings. SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. Fatal injuries were received by Mamie Kitchener, aged nineteen, yesterday morning when a motor cycle on which she was riding pillion collided with a motor ■ car in Colombo street south (Christchurch). She was taken to the hospital, and after lying in a critical condition, all day died late in the afternoon. Miss Kitchener was a passenger on a motor cycle driven by James Inkster. The driver- of the car was Robert Bradford. , Inkster escaped with a shaking and minor abrasions. MINER DEES IN HOSPITAL'. Charles Skinner, aged twenty-nine, deputy-manager of the Clele coal mine, was crushed by a fall of rock on Mon-, day. Ho was brought to the Reoftou Hospital and _ died late yesterday afternoon. Skinner was only recently, juarried. .