ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23129, 1 December 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

INJURED IN EXPLOSION. When a charge of gelignite exploded when he was tamping a hole, John Penberth, aged 21. a married man employed by the Public Works‘Department on the Buller-Inangahua Railway, was injured and removed to the Duller Hospital. The tamping rod blew out, and his head, face, ana right arm suffered considerably. His condition last night was fair. RAN INTO CAR. “ The girl ran into the motor car. She ran across the road from the back of a tram,” said a witness at the inquest on Joyce . Mabl© Pointon, aged 12, who was knocked down by a motor car near Chilka street, Wellington, receiving injuries from which she died. The driver of’the motor car, Ronald Keith Mitchell, said he was travelling about 15 miles an hour, and as he came level with an approaching tram, which had just previously stopped, the girl ran out from behind the tramcar and struck his mudguard. In returning a verdict that, the girl’s death was caused by injuries received in a collision with a motor car, the coroner (Mr E. Gilbertson) remarked that the child was perhaps hurried and was not looking out. INJURED BY FLYING GLASS. An explosion in the laboratory ai Wilson’s Brewery yesterday resulted in David Dick, a married man, who, lives at 82 Gladstone road, North-east Valley, being cut about the face by flying class. He was admitted to the Hospital at 4.30 p.m. FALL FROM A POLE. Injuries to the head and shock were suffered by Eric Stephenson when he fell from a pole at Halfway Bush today. He was admitted to the Hospital at 10.55 a.m.