ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21354, 7 March 1933, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CHILD RUN DOWN AND KILLED* Knocked down by a light motor van in Remuera road (Auckland), a seven-' year-old girl named Hilda Joy Skegg 1 was killed almost instantly. She the. daughter of Wilfred Skegg, insur- 1 anca .manager. , The van Was drivenby John Charles _ Alfred Crawley, a.'} farmer, of Tamaki West, who was re-| turning home after having taken milk' to the city. Mr Skegg’s car was parked] on the opposite side of the road. The ; child went to get some milk from a] dairy, and instead of returning to the’ car she ran across the street, presuraahly to make purchases at a fruit; shop. She had almost reached the] other side of the street when the accident occurred. The girl received terrible injuries, including fractures of the skull, neck, and thigh. _ A doll the child was carrying was picked up after the accident with its head broken. _ A tragic feature is that the girl’s father, realising that there had been an accident, rushed in his car to obtain a doctor without knowing it was his daughter who had been killed. He believed that his child was still in tho dairy. It was not until he returned with a doctor that he made the tragio discovery. PLANE SMASH—BANKED TOO STEEPLY, The evidence is insufficient to show; negligence on the part of the pilot,but his own evidence tends to show that an error of judgment was committed in- banking the machine too steeply on a turn,” said the coroner (Mr iR. S. Sage) at the inquost_ at Opunake concerning the death of Richard Guy Putt, who was killed at Pihama ou January 29 when the Western Federated Flying Club’s plane, piloted by Brian Ford Davies, crashed in a; paddock. ' The verdict was that Putt met his death through the fall of a plane. Evidence was given that the plane circled over a house where Putt was known, and was making a further circle when it nose-dived and crashed. The pilot stated that he put the machine into a vertical hank for a turn at a’ height of about 400 ft. He attributed the nose-dive to having given too much rudder ou the turn. MOTOR CARS COLLIDE. A head-on collision between two motor cars occurred last night on the Main South road at Titri, the vehicles being so badly damaged that the services of a break-down car from Dunedin had to be requisitioned before they, could he removed from the roadway.- 1 One car was driven by Mr Arthur Nelson, of Brighton, who was returning from Te Anau, and the other 1 was driven by Mr George Thomas, of Kaitangata.A boy fifteen years of age who was sitting in the front seat of Mr Thomas’s car, was thrown through the wind screen and his face was badly cut, though otherwise he was" not hurt. Beyond shaking and bruising, no one in the other car was injured.