Schoolboy Struck by Car; Both Legs Broken
RAN OUT FROM LANE. (Special to “Times. ”) NAPIER, March 5. Noel Lyons, a nine-year-old boy who lives at McGrath street, Napier, is a patient at the Napier Public suffering from two broken legs sustained yesterday afternoon when he ran headlong into a motor-car travelling up France road, Napier, driven by Mrs Mary Cecil Nairn, of Havelock North. His condition was reported this morning as being satisfactory. j Mrs Nairn was driving her car up France road in the direction of Lighthouse road, at the top of the hill,'at J. 50 o’clock yesterday afternoon. While she was passing the intersection of a hyway known as Cobden Lane, a group >f schoolboys came running out on to France road. Apparently not eeeing the tar as it came round the corner, Noel Lyons ran straight into it and struck me of the left-hand mudguards. Ho vas thrown violently backwards, the tore® of the impact breaking both his egs. Medical attention was given him ty Dr. A, G. Clark, after which he wa* aken home and then admitted to hoa<UL .-..***'
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 4
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