ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 October 1927, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AIOTOR CYCLIST DIES OF INJURIES. (by telegraph—press association.) WANGANUI, Oct. 15. Alaurice Armstrong, who was riding a motor-cycle when he collided with a horse at Putiki while on his way to a dance at Kaitoke on Thursday evening, died at the hospital this morning. A young lady who was riding on the back of the machine escaped injury. AIOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. PALMERSTON N., Oct. 14. Gordon Cossnr, aged 3 8 years, while riding a motor-cycle on Ivawakawa Rond, Feilding, to-night, collided with a cabbage tree and lay on the roadside for some time before being discovered, lie was admitted to the hospital at Palmerston North and his condition is serious. A fractured skull is suspected. RUN OVER BY AIOTOR CAR. WITAKATANE, Oct. 14. A middle-aged man named Stanley Forbes, a resident of Otnkiri, was run over by a motor-car last evening at Otnkiri’, receiving severe injuries to the chest and head. Forbes was walking along the road when a car came out from the Tarawera dairy factory. For some time he was pinned under the car. When extracted he was brought to the Whnkatane Hospital, where he lies in a serious condition.

YOUTH INJURED IN COLLISION. HASTINGS, Oct. 14. A boy named Ralph H. Stevenson, who was riding a motor cycle, collided this morning with a 5-ton motor lorry coming in the opposite direction. The lorry was driven by Air Ballantyne, a. contractor, who was turning into" a side street. Stevenson struck the back spring of the lorry and somersaulted underneath it, and was then flung across the left back wheel, inflicting a long, deep cut on the back of the head. Ho was picked up unconscious and taken to the hospital in a serious condition.