ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1939, Page 3

ACCIDENTS

CHRISTCHURCH MISHAPS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 26. When his motor-cycle skidded on the tramlines at the corner of High Street and Madras Street this morning, and collided with a parked motorcar. Mr W. Marshall, of 54, Hopkins Street, received a compound fracture of the right leg. He was removed to the Public Hospital by a St. John ambulance and admitted. Struck by a tram near the clock tower in Victoria Street at six o’clock last evening, J. Elston, of 392, Madras Street, suffered abrasions to a hand and shock. He was admitted to the Public Hospital, his condition being reported this morning as satisfactory. When she fell and hit her head on the pavement after bumping into another pedestrian yesterday evening, Mrs E. Kitchingham, of 140, Carlyle Street, collapsed, and was admitted to the Public Hospital with head injuries and shock. Her condition this morning was reported at satisfactory. Slight concussion was suffered by Mr Charles Drayton, of Hackthorne Road, when the light car in which he was a passenger collided with another car at the corner of Moorhouse Avenue and Colombo Street at 2.20 o’clock this afternoon. The injured man was taken to hospital. COLLAPSE AT WORK. DARGAVILLE, August 26. Mr John Lawrence Long Lupton, a married man aged fifty-eight, a hotel proprietor of Tangiteroria, collapsed while working and died at 4.30 p.m. yesterday.