ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Grey River Argus, 12 April 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

With Motors WELLINGTON". April 9. Alfred Harold Lucas, aged 15, of Muller Road, Blenheim, and C. Ross, aged 76, of Constable Street, Newtown. were admitted to the Hospital shortly after six o’clock tonight suffering from severe injuries received through being knocked down by a taxi cab in Courtenay Place. Lucas, whose skull was fractured, died at 8 p.m. Ross, who is suffering from severe injuries ,to the ribs and the shoulder, is not in a very serious condition. So far as can be ascertained both the man and boy were crossing the road during a heavy downpour, and walked into the taxi. They were taken to the HosGISBORNE. Apiil 11-

A motor ear. containing four passengers in addition to the driver, went over a bank and into the river between Motn and Matawai last evening, one of the passengers, Mrs AV. I. Karata, receiving severe injuries. The car driven by Douglas Enemy, was conveying four Maori ladies from Waikato to Tolaga Bay. Shortly before reaching Matawai, the visibility became bad through mist, and the ear left the road and hurtled 50 feet down a bank into the river Mrs Karata was pinned beneath the car in the river, and was extricated with considerable difficulty. TIMARU, April 9.

Three accidents occurred here to-day. A big service bus and a motor-car collided a few miles north of Timaru. The driver of the ear .suffered severe cuts to the face and hands, while his wife, Mrs Charles Dash, suffered a fractured thigh and knee, and was taken to the hospital. In another ease, a Chnstehun-h resident, who was motoring to Lake lekapo. with his wife and family and a friend, failed to negotiate a small bridge near Cave township and the ear capsized into the water hole. The ear was a sedan, but its occupants man aged to open a door and reach dry land very wet. but uninjured. In the "third ease, a man attempted to board an express tram " le " 1 " a n in motion, and was dragget . yards before the train was stopped and he was released from his perilous position, clinging .to the undercarriage of the par. He was severely shaken, but otherwise unhurt.

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