INJURED MAN'S ORDEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 10

INJURED MAN'S ORDEAL.

LEFT LYING ON THE ROAD. LEG BROKEN IN ACCIDENT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT,] CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. Knocked down by a horse and trap in Edgeware Road shortly after 12.15 o'clock yesterday morning, Robert Inkster, aged 20, residing at 51, Hills Road, lay in agony with a fractured leg until he was picked up by a passing motorist nearly half an hour afterwards. Inkster was proceeding home on his motor-cycle and was travelling in an easterly direction along Edgeware Road. Just as he was nearing the intersection of Madras Street the trap, 'which is said to have had no lights, turned the corner, and the horse was upon him in an instant. One of the wheels of the trap passed over Inkster's right leg, breaking it, and he also received extensive bruises on the body. The trap, which is said to have contained several men, continued' on its way. Rain was falling arid the injured man lay dazed and suffering on the road. He called loudly for help, but no one came. His cries were heard by occupants of houses for some distance round, but at first attracted no' particular attention.

Awakened by the man's persistent cries, Mr. R. Gudsell, who keep's a grocer's shop nearby, got up from his bed and, looking out of the window, saw the injured man lying on the road. He dressed hurriedly and %verst out to him. In the meantime, however, Mr. H. F; Lamb, a motorist, had driven up, and finding that he could not lift the injured man into his car without assistance, had gone further down the road to another automobile which had pulled up outside a house several chains away. The injured man was driven to the Christchurch Hospital. Examination there showed that he had been severely bruised and had suffered a fracture of the right leg immediately above the knee.