ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 4 September 1939, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

MAORI BOY’S INJURIES. TEMUKA, September 2. Struck by a motor-car driven by Mr Jack Ayton Kent, of Riccarton, a Maori lad Wiljiam Torepe, aged 17, of Temuka, received severe injuries to his buttocks when walking along the main road south of Temuka last night. He was attended by Dr. F. A. Scannell, who orderer his immediate removal to the Timaru Public Hospital. This morning his condition was satsfactory. CAR OVERTURNES. DUNEDIN, September 2. Three people were injured in a motor smash to-day. They were: S. T. Phillips, a jockey, aged twenty, broken back; Edward Phillips, a jockey, the driver of the car, broken shoulder; i A. Welsh, aged twenty-one, minor injuries. The car was proceeding from Woodlands to Dunedin. The driver mistook a deviation at the Kaihiku Bridge and the car turned turtle, b. T. Phillips and Welsh were pinned underneath. The Phillips brothers were admitted to the Balclutha Hospital. LORRY PASSSENGER KILLED. GISBORNE, September 2. A bridge contractor, Mr Herbert Thomas Reynolds, aged forty-seven a married man. was killed when he fell out of a motor-lorry in which he was a passenger. Reynolds was sitting against a door, and it is thought that the door flew open. The driver of the vehicle, Mr Jack Andrews, is of the opinion that the truck passes over Reynolds’s body. He felt a bump in the truck after Reynolds had fallen out.