ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18572, 26 November 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR-CAR MISHAP. A Studobaker car went over, a thirty feet bank running down into Duvauchelle on Wednesday from tho Pigeon Bay Road. The occupants Messrs J. Kelly and B. N. Scott, of the Lands Department, escaped with minor injuries. The bend where the car went over is understood to be near Mr J. Weston’s property, and’ there is a pretty sharp fall. The car, which belongs to the Lands Department, is said to be very slightly damaged. Mr Kelly escaped quite unhurt, but Air Scott sustained an injury to the wrist and also, it is stated, to the ribs. He was attended by Dr Cantrell, of Akaroa. The road where the mishap occurred is not a part of the ordinary service route to Akaroa’. SAWMILLER’S MISHAP. A fracture of the left lleg was sustained by Henry Robinson, of Sheffield, a sawmiller, through a piece of timber falling upon him. He was admitted to tlie Public Hospital yesterday afternoon. BOATING FATALITY. [Per. Press Association.] OAMARU, November 23. A distressing boating fatality' occurred in the harbour this afternoon, in which a young man named John Shepherd, aged twenty-six years, fourth son of Mr S. T. Shepherd, of Tyne Street, Oamaru, lost his life. It appears that one of the Oamaru Boating Olub four oar crews, of whioh Shepherd was stroke, was out training in the harbour, and in rounding the bend the boat was swamped. Tho crew left tlie boat, but seeing Shepherd in distress hia mates kept jiim afloat until help arrived from: the shore. Shepherd was'visibly distressed and had collapsed before the rescue, and although every' effort was made to resuscitate him he. expired about an hour and a half after. Shepherd went overseas with the Eighteenth reinforcements and saw three years' service and was severely wounded. It is thought that the gas attack ho suffered had undermined his powers of ,resistance, and that h© died from tho shock of being thrown into the water.

FALL THROUGH A WINDOW. AUCKLAND, November 25. William Hayes, aged sixty-five, fell through a window in Wellesley Street, and died in the hospital, two hours later.