ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 16 January 1941, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

FATAL CAR CRASH. DUNEDIN, January 14. A fatal car accident occurred near Lee stream Outram, this afternoon, when Eric King, of Otautau, Southland, was killed. King, who had been staying at the Clark’s Junction Hotel, was driving with the licensee, Geoffrey Farrell, about two miles on the north-west side of Lee stream when a tyre burst, and the car plunged about 160 feet down a bank at the side of the road. Farrell escaped with bruises.

LORRY OVERTURNS. CHRISTCHURCH, J’anuary 14. Five sheep had to be killed as a result of injuries received when a lorry overturned near Woodend last evening. J'ust before 7.30 o’clock the lorry, carrying a full load of sheep, was being driven east along the RangioraWoodend Road by E. Withers, Of Church Street, Rangiora. At a bend in the road the lorry overturned and struck a telegraph pole. The driver suffered head injuries, and was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospitalby the St. John Ambulance. His condition late last night was reported to be satisfactory.

Injuries to the right side were suffered by L. Campbell aged 38, of 352 Tuam Street, when he fell from a stack of timber yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 2.45 p.m., and his condition is reported to be satisfactory. NELSON January 15. Hit by a flying piece of wood while blasting a tree stump at Cobb River, near Upper Takaka, yesterday afternoon, Laurence Henry Rainey, 53, received head injuries from which he died in the Nelson Hospital. Rainey was in charge of a party of men working on the road to give access to the dam at the new hydro-electric scheme. They had set a charge in the stump and had taken shelter, but a piece of the stump flew into the air and landed on Rainey, severely injuring his head. He was carried on a stretcher to the camp, then brought 60 miles to Nelson in the Public Works ambulance. Rainey leaves a wife, residing at Nelson, and a family of eight, the youngest being 15 years of age. DANNEVIRKE, January 15.

James Birnie Watt, of Roslyn, Dunedin, a member of the- Scottish Regiment, who was injured during Territorial manoeuvres at Dannevirke. prior to Christmas, through a despatch rider crashing into him when marching with his column, died suddenly in the Dannevirke Hospital, to-day, having been an inmate of the institution since December 20. He was writing a letter to his mother, just before a fatal seizure.