WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Northern Advocate, 16 June 1930, Page 9

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

i | LAD CRUSHED. TO DEATH. I '. I j MOTORIST BADLY BURNED. (Per Pyess, Atßsnf.i^tlpn f ~Oopyrig:ht,) DUNUUJN, Tips Dgy. Through a lorry getting opt of control and capsizing, Gordon. , Albert Craik, a twelve-year-old boy fell beneath the, aide of, the. vehjfile and was crushed to death. ; . . ’ Through, the bpirsthig of, a front .tyre, the car, which; was being driven by Harry Burns along Lower Portobello Road' on 'Saturday afternoon, ran over the bank and’ caught fire. A

passenger -was thrown clear and,* escaped with slight bruises, bp). Bump was severely burned: about the legs and received numerous? btuisek.

AND OAB< COLLIDE. MAN; RILLED OUTRIGHT. _ TWO - KILLED. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) HAMILTON, This Day. • •, . j ;Y > v , a • A motor' cycle hnd*'Mde- : ea'r tvas’ travelling toward Hamilton when it collided with a ear driven by H. Baldwin, a miner, of Huntly. John Langford Gavey, aged 26 years, a salesman, of Franktdn* |>utrighlt and' his companion, George Kako&f; aged 1 25 years, of, Hju^tly,, was, >t? hospital suffering frohx concussion. ‘lt is not known who was riding the cycle and who, waft in, the side-ear. Mrs Ann Stewart, a* 1 pessenger in the car, suffered shppV and slight cowr cussion, ' '' ‘ w.as mgrr-ied with, one child, CRAB® AVOIDED: PROMPT APPLICATION, OP BRAKES’. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) 1 HAMILTON, This, Day. A narrow' escape w.aa experrehoedi by the occupants: of a bus, travelling from Hamilton to To Aroha on Saturday night when about seven p,m. a bus nearly crashed’ into a train from Cambridge at Ncwstead. The driver ’.applied the brakes instantly, with the result that the bus slowed round into a ditch without capsizing. Mr, D. Wright, of Hamilton, a. passenger, was slightly 'injured in a shoulder and one woman suffered from shock. The damage was confined to a wrecked' radiator and a smashed windscreen.