KILLED BY LORRY

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1930, Page 5

KILLED BY LORRY

MESSENGER LAD’S FATE. [pee pbess association.] WELLINGTON, August 22. As the result of a collision between a motor lorry and a bicycle at the intersection of Hansom and Hall Streets, Wellington South, about five o’clock to-night, George Allan Turnbull, aged 17 years, a telegraph mes-, senger, was so badly injured that he died while being.taken to the public hospital. The boy was proceeding downhill along Hall Street in an easterly direction, when he collided with a lorry belonging to T. A. Wells, Limited, oil and colour merchants, Vivian Street, and driven bj T Albert Edward Collins. The boy was severely injured in the region of the head, and also received abrasions to arms and four Road, Mornington, when the bank Turnbull, Farnham Street, Mornington. Some eight years ago. Mr Turnbull lost another son in rather tragic circumstances. In company with a man named Thomas, Philip Henry Turnbull, aged 23 years, was engaged in excavating a building section in Balfour oad, RMornington, when the bank began to move, and he was killed by a fall of earth. Thomas’s two children were caught by the falling earth, but were practically uninjured. George Turnbull, who was killed today, narrowly escaped from being killed about six years ago, when he was knocked down by a tramcar in ( Newtown, receiving severe internal in- ■ juries. For about two years he was in the hospital and had not long recovered. KILLED BY TRAMCAR. WELLINGTON, August 22. At the inquest to-day, the Coroner returned a verdict that Mrs Martha Elizabeth Daly died on August 12 from a fracture of the base of the skull and compression of the brain, as the result of being knocked down by a tramcar in Moxham Avenue.