SERIOUS TRAM ACCIDENT.
ELDERLY MAN THROWN 0"01 Iff .'- v ; EDEN TERRACE. " ' ' f| Ax elderly man named John Eix, a resideoS ' ! ' of Hasleit-strset,, Eden Terrace, met with a % serious accident about half-past eleyes t> o'clock on Saturday night, when on his way home oil one of the electric tramcara, ox the §If; Kingsland circuit-. Rix was standing on thto 'j , rear platform of a combination car, and as- ' | the car swung sharply round the : cum in the line near Porter's Avenue, & distance of | about 100 yards from the stopping-place at ';"' : Victoria Avenue, he was shot out on to the, feff roadway, striking the grouad with his head with sufficient force .to render him uncon- 1 ' f§ scions. The unfortunate man was picked /M up and; carried ,on in the car to the Motus \;- : |pg Rcakill Road corse?, where Dr. Hardi|l^^^ t Porter attended to him and ordered his. ; moral to the hospital, whither 'he was con- \- veyed in an Ashford litter, kept in $111® locality. Rix, who passed & ■.'fair,: night os p Saturday, is [suffering from concussion of th« brain., and was still unconscious, said appaj- ' II ently in a precarious condition, when ',' ia,quiriei? were made conneriimg his progress at I a late hour last night. . Y
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12699, 31 October 1904, Page 4
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