ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17251, 19 August 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WATERSIDE WORKER’S DEATH’ DUE TO CEREBRAL. MENINGITIS. David Cossgrove, fifty years of age, a waterside worker, married, died suddenly at Lyttelton yesterday morning. For tho past eight months he had been residing at a boarding-honse Itt Oxford. Street, and at about 11 pinion Thursday complained of feeling'.unwell. Ho was attended- by Dr .'J. jA. Newell,’who visited him again' yesterday morning -at 7.30, but Cossgrova died a few minutes after the medical mail' had left. , • . £. « An inquest was held in tho afternoon, before Mr iT. A. B- BaHey, . ; Coroner. , ' $ Dr Nowell stated that Cossgrovo died from cerebral meningitis. He pact conducted a post-mortem, and specimens had’beon forwarded to the Hospital bacteriologist for examination in order to determine whether the disease was identical with that which had;OC--curred in the military camps. _ j ■ • A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence. t A FATAL COLLISION. [Per,-Press .AssocunON.] i MARTON, August 18. ,> A fatal collision occurred tliis afternoon at Pukepapa road railway cross- - ing, Martin, between a motor-car a goods Douglas a youth of Xisn years, was driving ; 1 his mother i 3 sisfer.Home, with ;thb side curtains of the car down and the hood up. He approached the railway lino without noticing the traini■% Hio engine struck the car, wrecking it completely and throwing the occupijnts out. Mrs Donald M’Lean,, a; well respected resident of tho Rangitilcei y district, a widow, was instantaneously killed. Tho driver sustained a broken ■ jaw and a severe shock. Ho is in a semi-conscious state. Miss M’Leag escaped injury.