ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 25564, 17 August 1945, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

A PEACE CELEBRATION CROP HEAD INJURIES FROM THROWN BOTTLES A Wellington Association message states that Private John Colson, of Trentham military camp, was killed on Wednesday evening, ■ when he was struck by.a railcar on a level crossing near Trentham. An elderly woman, Mrs Beatrice Higgins, was knocked over by a car in Waterloo Quay and killed at 8 p.m. A woman who had been injured in the street was taken into Victoria Hotel to await an ambulance. W4lliam McLean, a waterside worker, while assisting her out of the hotel, collapsed and died. The free' ambulance dealt with 47,accidents yesterday, 30 between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The majority were head injuries, the result of being struck by bottles. Few were considered serious. The police had a strenuous day, but there were only four arrests, all for drunkenness. Two fatal accidents marred the peace celebrations in Auckland. One of the victims was a truck driver, and the other a cyclist. In addition to motor accidents in the city and suburbs, there were a number of cases of assault, while others suffered lacerations when struck by bottles and glasses thrown among the crowds. As the result of being involved in a collision at Mangere, a push cyclist died later in the hospital. He was Richard Edmund Walsh (39), a married! man,' of Mangere. When a truck and a tram collided on the Great North road, the driver of the truck was killed instantly. He was Nolan Watson, aged 36, and married, of Parnell,. an engineer. Both truck and tram were extensively damaged.— Press Association. ~ MAORI KILLED. As the result of injuries,in a collision with a motor truck, a Maori, Jonah Wiki (25). married, with three children, died in Kawakawa Hospital. He was emploved in Moerewa Freezing; Works. Wiki w&s riding on the main road at Moerewa when he collided with a truck driven by his cousin, Mundi Wiki.—Whangarei message. . PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY CAR. A fatality occurred in the main street of Huntly. The victim was Neils Victor Carlson, aged 35, and single, &' miner. Carlson was walking across the road when he was struck by a motor, car. He was. an ex-serviceman of this war.—Auckland message