KILLED BY TRAMCAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 8

KILLED BY TRAMCAR

BOY FOUR YEARS OLD. v ■ ■ . - ' —- -'i ACCIDENT IN': KHYBER ' PASSL :V; ~-y[A V"' 1 --v ■ •' - -Kw:m DEATH INSTANTANEOUS.; ! < j ; ; A sad fatality occurred in Khyber Past | Road shortly before 4 . o'clock yesterday afternoon, when a four-year-old boy, Len«V nan Paul Patri, was run over by a tram. ' • I car and killed instantaneously. j The child, who ■ resided with a ; relative ■ ', : 3fj in Arawa Street, was playing on the foot- > path at the junction of Khyber Pass 1 and Arawa Street vith other young child- ' #:■! ren. He ran down the road and hesitated midway between the' tramline and the kerbiug. A tramcar driven by Motorman. C. W. Walker was proceeding on the down . grade, and the littlechiid suddenly darted in front of it and was knocked down. > '?i ; The motorman applied his. brakes . promptly, but when the car was brought to rest the boy was found pinned to the ground by the frame of the motor housing. ~ It ■ was ; seen immediately that life, was extinct. The car had to be raised r with jactfs before the body could bo ; .;i extricated, and it then was found thai ; / the skull had . been fractured. . i V; I I ''*