ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Young Man Shot. DUNEDIN, November 1. A voting man named Clevic was accidentally shot at Earnscleugh last night. He is in the Dunstan Hospital in a serious condition. CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR. WELLINGTON, November L At the inquest on the child, Margaret A. J. Ralph, aged 4A years, who was killed by a motor ca r in Willis Street, evidence was given that she was skipping across the road, and was watching another cur. A passenger said that she appeared to come out from behind the car suddenly. The verdict was one of accidental death. MOTOR VICTIM’S CLAIM. WELLINGTON, November L. The Supreme Court has been hearing to-day a claim for £1348 Ils damages by* Margaret Ellen Motley, aged 211 of Dannevirkc, Williajn Elliott and William Whit.field, of Napier. service car proprietors, and Hector Stanley McClelland; motor driver. Miss Motley was a passenger in the defendants’ car when it overturned at a coiner near Paraparaumu. and she was seriously injured, her pelvis being crushed, and also sustaining other in juries. Appellant claimed that the ;car at the time Was- travelling at an excessive and dangei'ous rate of spepd, while the defendants denied there was any negligence.

CROSSING COLLISION. ASHBURTON, November 1. ’l’he south-bound night express ran into a motor car on a crossing in the town. The car was almost over when the collision occurred. The occupants escaped except Miss Maggie McGregor, who received a fracture of the shoulder blade. VAN AND TRAMS IN SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH, November 1. With his milk van crushed between two moving tram curs, Henry Daniel /Spence, of Francis'Street, Burwood, bad a miraculous escape from deatn this morning. The accident happened when the traffic on Ferry Road was hyayy. > Spence. who was driving a Ford van turned out of Ollivier’s Road in the direction of the city, running alongside a city-bound tramcar. Before he had gone twenty yards'he collided with an outward-bound tram, the light motor being smashed between it and the inward-bound car. Spence was pinned into what was the driving seat by the wheel. He managed to get out through where ‘he windshield had been, with no worse injuries than a bruised chest and small cut on one finger. The van was extricated by means of a horse and dray.