ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10724, 23 October 1928, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

TAXI IN COLLISION

THREE OCCUPANTS INJURED. (Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 22, A taxi returning from the Rangiora races this evening, collided with another car at the intersection of Madras street and Edgeware road. The taxi was capsized, and rolled over twice, its passengers received injuries and were admitted to hospital. W. F. Collins. 23 Trafalgar street, sustained injuries to head, and shock : Mrs. Collins injuries to back, and shock; and W. A. English. 278 Ferry road, injuries to head, and shock. The hospital authorities report Mr. and Mrs. Collins are in a fairly seri ous condition. The taxi was badly smashed, but the occupants of the other car escaped injury. FATAL FALL DOWN HOTEL STAIRWAY. fPresa Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 22. Daniel Cosgrave, 47, a married laborer, fell down the stairway at the Empire hotel on Saturday and fractured his skull. He died later in the hospital. FOUND DEAD IN HOUSE. RELATIVES LOCATED BY RADIO. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct, 22. Frank Carter, 46, was found dead in liis house near Waimauku on Saturday. An inquiry by radio located his relatives at Wellington. At the inquest a verdict that death was due to poisoning was returned. MOTOR FATALITIES. cPres* Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 22, The deaths occurred in hospital last night of William Murray, ID, who was injured when a motor cycle collided with a motor-car on Wednesday, and of Hubert Thomas, 18, who was struck by a motor truck while riding a cycle at Avondale on October 10. MISSING BOY FOUND DROWN]" fPress Association^ HAMILTON, Oct. 22. Claude Horwood (13), -of Taupiri. 'who had been missing since Sunday week, when lie went out shootiu" alone, was found drowned in a creek on a neighboring farm to-day, CAR OVERTURNS. DEATH OF YOUNG MOTORIST. Press Association.) . V NAPIER, Oct. 22. Mr J. E. Pickering, aged about 23, employed by the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, diedl in the Napier Hospital early this morning, the result of injuries sustained in a motor accident a week or two ago. Deceased was proceeding from Hastings to Napier alone in a car a t night when the vehicle evidently skidded its lie was turning back from ,a closed bridge and overturned.' Pickering was found in the centre of the road by a milkman in the early hours of the morning. YOUTHFUL MOTOR CYCLIST CRITICALLY INJURED. (Press Association.) NAPIER, Oct. 22. Whilst riding a motor cycle to which lidßwas not accustomed), near Clive last evening, William Sparworth, a, youth, aged twenty, lost control and ,was thrown on to , the road. He suffered severe facial • injuries, and was taken to Napier hospital in an. uhconseius condition; He is reported to-night to be still'in a critical state. ' - Who pays the bill for the injured worker ?• "Consult the Standard In surance Company for full protection. —C. G. Bloore, chief agent; A. G. geddnn. local manager -+-< Arlvt,)