BUN DOWN BY MOTOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18702, 7 May 1924, Page 8

BUN DOWN BY MOTOR.

frankton street tragedy,, SWERVE INTO A CYCLE. YOUNG ' MAN'S TERRIBLE DEATH. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Tuesday. ■ A motor accident resulting in the death of a youth named Maurice Ansell, aged 21, a motor mechanic and son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ansell, of Sin 4 Street, Frankton Junction, occurred in Victoria Street North, Hamilton, at noon to-day. The police state that from accounts of eye-witnesses; it would appear that Ansell was cycling across Victoria Street 10 enter a gateway on the eastern side, when 3 seven-seated Studebaker car, driven by Joseph Ball, a taxi driver of Frankton, and engaged on a regular service between Hamilton and Frankton, approached from behind. The car driver, probably not divining Ansell's intention of crossing the street, swerved in the same direction at an accelerated pace. The vehicle crashed into \ the cycle, carried Ansell some distance and ran over his body, fracturing his skull and crushing his ribs. Before coming to a standstill , it collided with a heavy Win. telegraph post, which was shattered by the impact, while the car was completely wrecked. The driver of . the car, Ball, suffered severely from shock, but otherwise escaped injury. Of his five passengers, two were cut about the face and head by glass from the broken windscreen. Ansell was picked up in a dying condition and expired on his way to the hospital. After! the accident Constable Sutton found a loaded revolver on tne back seat of the car.