ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 148, 12 June 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FALL FROM TRAIN. Yesterday afternoon. William Johnson, of Milton road, Napier, an employee of the Railway Department, received extensive head injuries through falling from an engine, necessitating his removal to the Napier Hospital. While at the crossing near tho old Westshore bridge it appears that Johnson was climbing into the cab. when he slipped, falling back on his head. The train at the time was moving slowly. This morning Johnson was reported to be much improved CYCLIST SLIGHTLY INJURED. Arthur Louis Godfrey, an employee at the Whakatu Freezing Works, sustained abrasions to the left leg and bruises as the result of a collision with a motor-car driven by Walter Raymond, farmer and motor salesman, of Longlands, on the NanierHastings road at 5.10 o’clock last evening. Godfrey and a fellow-employee named Robert Smart were cycling along Karamn road, near the Whakatu turn-off, when the dazzling headlights of the oncoming traffic caused them some confusion. Smart then pulled in behind Godfrey, when a oar driven by Raymond coming up behind them struck Godfrey’s bike, throwing him off the road.

Unusual circumstances were described at the inquest held at Auckland by the Coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., into tho death of Henry Crowne, aged 44, who died in the Auckland Hospital on March 28 as a result of head injuries received in an accident on June 29, 1929. Decased was married. He was admitted to hospital on the day of the accident in a grave condition. He was discharged on August 10 and admitted again on March 27. Dr. W. Gilmour, who made a post-mortem examination, said that death was due to a fracture of the skull which showed signs of healing, but could easily be parted. Laceration of the brain had been present for some time. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. A motor-car driven by Nurse Carswell fell over a high bank near Lairdvale, when returning to Taumarunui from Taringatmutu on Sunday afternoon Other occupants of the car were Mrs K. Goodsir, Mrs Goodsir’s daughter and Miss Sanson. Nurse Carswell received injuries to her left arm and shoulder, hut the other occupants escaped uninjured. The vehicle was damaged, A motor collision at 11 o’clock yesterday morning caused such injuries to Mrs R W. Lochhead, aged 55, wife of a well-known Canterbury farmer, that she died in Christchurch hospital two and a-half hours later. Tho car, which Mr Lochhead was driving, collided with a heavy passenger ’bus at an intersection. The car was badly damaged, especially on the side on which Mrs Lochhead was sitting. Mr Hochhead was unhurt. Little damage was done to the ’bus. While inspecting a weighing machine at the Wanganui railway goods sited yesterday, Joseph Omrod, a married man, aged 60, residing at Arnmoho. collapsed and died, death being due presumably lo a heart at-