MOTOR ACCIDENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 March 1935, Page 5

MOTOR ACCIDENT

WOMAN DIES FROM INJURIES

[By Telegraph—Press Association]

INVERCARGILL, 3rd March. Serious injuries, which later proved fatal, were received this morning by Miss Delia Daley, aged 07, when she was struck by a motor-car driven by Michael Joseph Gilfedder, a taxi driver, at the intersection of Eye street’ and Nith street about ten minutes past 8 o’clock. Mr Gilfedder was travelling smith along Nith street, and when crossing over the-railway line noticed a woman standing in the centre of the road at the intersection. He sounded his horn twice, and Miss Daley, who, it is reported, was hard of hearing, seemed to get a fright, for she darted back and then forward again, and was struck with the left-hand"side mudguard. She was conveyed to the Southland Hospital suffering from head injuries and a broken right leg, and died, about 11.30 a.ru.

CLERGYMAN INJURED

AUCKLAND, 3rd March. In a collision between a small car lie was driving and another car at an intersection in Epsom, the Rev. George Wiliam Jackson, of One Tree Hill, received concussion and abrasions. The driver of the other car, Mr John Barrett, was not injured. The collision was so severe that the driver’s side of Mr Jackson’s car was completely crushed, the door torn off and the windscreen shattered. He fell out on to the roadway. Mr Jackson, who is minister of.the Green Lane Congregational Church, was reported by the hospital authorities this afternoon to be not in a serious condition.

INQUEST AT NAPIER

A LONG HEARING

WAIROA, This Day,

The inquest on the victims of the car smash on sth January was concluded after a long hearing. The Coroner, Mr V. E. Winter, returned a verdict that Walter Tangi and Caroline Watson met their deaths as the result of injuries received through a car collision on the Napier road. The evidence went to show, added Mr Winter, .that the driver of the car ; James Watson, was , responsible for the collision arid for the deaths of the three victims.

The driver, who suffered a bad fracture of the arm, is still a patient in the Gisborne Hospital.