MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17177, 3 June 1919, Page 6

MOTORING ACCIDENTS.

CAPSIZE OF A CAR.

FARMER'S WIFE' KILLED.

TWO OTHERS INJURED.

[Bt telegraph.— association.]

I OAMABD. Monday. Information was received this afternoon ! of a fatal motoring accident at Hillgrove, ! by which Mrs. J. Mahoney, wife of a farJ mer at Enfield, wae killed. i It appears that a party of four was on I j the'way to Dunedin in a car owned and 1 driven by Mr. John Mahoney, the others J being Mrs. Hahbney, Miss Mahoney, and ' Mr. Duncan Cameron. At a sharp cor- j j ner of the Kartiki Road they met a dray, j I and to avoid a collision the car was turned j j into a bank and capsized. | J Mrs. Mahoney was thrown out violently ' and killed instantaneously. Miss Mahoney ; had her jawbone broken, besides injuries 'to her hip. Mr. Cameron received slight j injuries, while Mr. Mahoney escaped unscathed. Mrs, Mahoney was 61 years of

RUN OVER AND KILLED.

FATALITY AT CLIVE.

[BT API!.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

NAPIER, Monday.

Dennis Crowlev, for. many years a resident of Give, was knocked down by a car at Give and killed. He 'was crossing the road and became confused on. the approach of a car- driven from Hastings to Namer with a load of hockey players. An inquest was opened on Saturday evening, and was adjourned.

CHILD'S SKULL FRACTURED.

VICTIM IN SERIOUS STATE.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION*.]

NAPIER, Monday. Another motor accident occurred to-day, when Jack Fox, aged four years, a son of Conductor Fox, of the City Band, was run over by a motor-car on Marine Parade. His thigh and skull are fractured, and ho is in the hospital in a serious state.

ANOTHER OAR OVERTURNS.

LITTLE GIRL KILLED.

[by telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUECH. Monday, j A motor-car accident occurred yesterday at Waikari, and resulted in the death of a child, named Hepzibah Kennedy, three years of age. No details are available except that the deceased was one of a party in a car driven by her father, and that j she was killed by the car overturning. i

FOUND UNCONSCIOUS ON ROAD.

CAR-DRIVER FAILS TO STOP. [BT telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.! NAPIER. Monday. A clerk named William James Munro was found unconscious on Napier Terrace, having been run ever by a motor-car, which had driven on, leaving him lying on the road. The driver of the car has not been discovered.

A CAPSIZE AND A COLLISION.

OCCUPANTS ESCAPE UNHURT. j [BT TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] j NAPIER, Monday... j While a car was Icing driven to Hast-; ings on Saturday night, after the theatre, ■ it overturned at Waitantf. No one was ; injured. ; A collision occurred between two motor- ' cars at the hospital on Sunday, but for- j tunately the occupants escaped unhurt, i i I AN OTAGO DANGER SPOT. j i I [DT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] OAIIARU. Monday, i The inquiry into the fatal motor acci- [ dent which occurred on Thursday night! last, concluded to-.day. The jury re- . turned a verdict that Mrs. Glass and her I daughter met their death by asphyxiation, | caused by being pinned under the car in mud and water. j | A rider was adJed drawing the atten-: ' tion of the authorities to .the failure of motorists to lower their lights on meeting other vehicles. The opinion was expressed ; that the bridge where the accident oc- { curred should he widened, as the . an- j preaches were dangerous. ;

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER'S DEATH,