PEDESTRIAN KILLED.
STRUCK BY TAXICAB. three limbs fractured. ACCIDENT IN BEACH ROAD. Fatal injuries were received by a pedestrian, Mr. Charles Anderson, single, aged about 55, as a result of being struck by a taxicab while crossing Beach Boad near the foot of Anzac Avenue shortly after six o'clock last evening. The injured man was removed to the Auckland Hospital in the cab and died four hours later.
The taxi, privately owned, was being driven along Beach Road toward the city and struck Mr. Andersen as he was walking across toward .Anzac Avenue. The driver stopped his car and with tho aid of a constable look the injured man to tho Queen's Wharf station of the St. John Ambulance. Mr. Andersen was then taken to tho hospital and was found to bo suffering from fractures of both legs and one arm and other serious injuries. His condition was extremely grave and he died shortly after 10 o'clock. Mr. Andersen, who had no relatives in New Zealand, lived at tho homo of Mr. 11. Brown, at 5, Morton Street, off Cook Street, City.
An inquest will bo opened this morning
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 8
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