STRUCK BY CAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 6

STRUCK BY CAR

CHILD DANGEROUSLY ILL ACCIDENT ON PORT ROAD A four-year-old boy, James David Burton, L dangerously ill in the Nelson Public Hospital as the result of being struck by a car at Port Nelson last evening. lie was standing on the grass on the sea side of the road watching a heavy lorry with a grab attached travelling from Nelson, and stepped on to the road in front of a car driven by Mr W. G. Gorman. IR* was struck by the mudguard on the driver's side of the car and received severe head injuries when he was thrown to the road. The child, whose parents reside in Wellington, was staying with his grandparents, Mr and Mrs J. W. A. Pegg, Haven road. The lorry which was holding the child's attention, was on its way to the scone of another accident which had occurred at Annesbrook earlier in the afternoon. A lorry owned by W. A. Kenning, cartage contractor, was carrying a load of gravel towards Nelson along the main road when the driver saw a car approaching from his right down Quarantine road. He pulled too far to his left and the truck overturned in the deep ditch on the side of the road. It was prevented from going right over by a big macrocarpa hedge grow ing further down the bank and the driver was not injured.