ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 149, 13 June 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association.] Cecil William Elvidgc, aged 18, resident at Hunterville, was admitted tc the Palmerston North Public Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from concussion and abrasions sustained in a motor-cyclo accident. His condition is reported to bo satisfactory.

A motor vehicle conveying about twenty children to Karaka School (Auckland district) yesterday morning overtured on the Drury-Paerata road about half a mile from the school The driver of tho lorry, J. J. Fox. was proceeding slowly and when he was endeavouring to avoid a collision with a boy riding a bicycle tho vehicle left tho road and overturned. None of tho occupants was seriously injured, but one boy named Dethunc received cuts on tho forehead. Ho was conveyed to Papakura by tho schoolmaster (Mr Woods) for medical attention, and two stitches wore inserted in the boy’s head. The lorry was damaged.

“He feared the charge you were inquiring into; it was suicide.” This was tho verdict of the Coroner, Mr Hunt, at an inquest held at Auckland yesterday afternoon on Wiliam Patrick Lennox, aged 47, of Takapuna, who was found dead in the kitchen of his home. Lennox had been living alone. His wife was in Dunedin.

A verdict of accidental death was returned at Wellington to-day at the inquest on Albeit B. Shelbourne, aged 52, who was killed when the lorry he was driving ran .back in Todman street, Brooklyn, on June 5. From the evidence it would appear that he found himself in the wrong street and attempted to turn; when the lorry ran back he tried to steer it into Charlotto Avenue, hut it struck the kerb and overturned.

A cow was killed outright and a motor cyclist. It. Tapp, of the Hawera “Star” delivery staff, experienced a fortunate escape from serious injury last evening in a collision near Matapu. The cyclist was passing a group of unattended stock when a cow started to cross the road but stopped in the track of the cycle with its head lowered. The animal was struck n glancing blow and a leap and fell on its head, its \tck being broken. The rider escaped with a severe bruising.