ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

boy ELECTROCUTE 1)

WIRE APPARENTLY STRETCHED BETWEEN POLES.

(press Association ') WELLINGTON, Sept. 2D Thomas David AUanson, 14, was electrocuted at . Lower Hutt this morning. Apparently a wire was stretched between- two - poles irom near tlie top of one arid tied to tho other a few feet from the ground. The hoy was swinging on this, it is surmised, causing it to come in contact with the live wires.- Nothing, however, is known definitely. The wire is.on railway property.

CAR DRIVEN AT UNSAFE - SPEED: ' CORONER’S VERDICT IN MOTOR FATALITY. (Pi'ess Association.) . . CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 27‘•'After listening to the evidence I have come, to Hie' conclusion, and 1 think no unbiased person could corno to any other, That- the car in -which Reynolds was riding.-and. which was driven by Vernon Clemens, was’travelling at au unsafe speed,, having regard to all the circumstances: also that tlie motor lorry driven by Ernie Laurie Page, although'carefully driven . was too close- to the eastern wall.” This rider was added to an onen verdict returned bv the coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., at tlie muuost Concerning the death of Edward Reynolds, a Wellington business man, who died on September 12. a month after he had been injured in a collision outside tne gates of Paparua prison.