ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20986, 28 December 1931, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

. MOTORING MISHAPS. Two gars collided between Waipawa and Waipukurau on Saturday, one going over a bank and being badly damaged. The two ocupants, Mrs Want and her daughter Valerie, aged six, were admitted to the Waipukurau Hospital, tho former with lacerations to the legs and tho latter with body bruises. H. Stear, the driver of the other car, was also admitted to hospital with cut tendons in the left hand. While riding on a motor lorry with her father on Christmas Day, near Otane, Barbara Pedersen, aged nine, fell to the ground in endeavouring to recover one of a load of horse collars which was slipping, and a compound fracture of the leg.—Napier message. . Lewis Evans, a cripple, of Napier, was knocked from a motor-driven invalid chair by an overtaking car on Awatoto road on Christmas Day, and suffered a fracture of the base of the skull. The hospital authorities report that his condition is satisfactory. A collision between a motor cycle and a taxi on Sunday resulted in Mrs Kearney, of 110 Carlyle l street, Sydenham, Christchurch, who was standing on the footpath, being knocked over. She suffered a compound fracture of the left leg* as well as scalp wounds. Neither the cyclist nor the driver of the car received more than minor injuries. When the taxi struck his machine the motor cyclist, who was travelling close to the kerb, was thrown against Mrs Kearney, who was knocked violently to the ground. FOUND DEAD. James Braid, a single man, fortyeight years of age, was found hanging in the washhouse of his home at 3 Quentin avenue, shortly after noon yesterday. An inquest was held in the afternoon before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., evidence being given by the deceased’s sister (who kept house for him), a neighbour, and Dr Barnett. Miss Braid said that her brother was in fairly good health, but was a very quiet man. He had been left alone for the morning while she went to church. A verdict of suicide by hanging while in a depressed state of mind was returned.