ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23833, 13 March 1941, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

TRAIN HITS LORRY. A goods train approaching Feilding from the south last evening crashed into a large lorry carrying lam'bs and sheep' to the Aorangi freezing works. The heavily-laden lorry was 1 (Wrecked almost completely, and the driver and part owner, Charles Ernest Robinson* who was seriously injured, was taken to the Palmerston North Hospital. FATAL CRASH. A fatal accident, in which a young woman was killed and two other people injured, occurred at Hillcrest, 2J 'miles from Hamilton, shortly after midnight, when a heavy sedan car failed to negotiate a bend and crashed into a telegraph pole. The victims were:— Killed: Miss Myra Coutts (20), employed at Morrinsville Sanatorium. Injured: Leslie Everett, lorry driver, of Morrinsville, head injuries and severe abrasions, condition not serious; Miss Elizabeth Everett, head injuries, condition not serious. The driver of the taxi, William Reid Douglas, of Morrinsville, was not injured. The fatality occurred at the intersection of Hooper’s road and the Ham-ilton-Cambridge highway. Miss Coutts received head and internal injuries, dying two hours after she had been taken to hospital.—Press Association. JUMPED FROM WAGON. Jumping from a wagon into which he was loading hay at Moa Flat, Lex Smaill, a young man, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg. - Ho was brought to the Dunedin Hospital, to which he was admitted at noon today.