LITTLE GIRL KILLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 10

LITTLE GIRL KILLED.

STRUCK BY MOTOR-VAN.

INSTANTANEOUS DEATH.

RUNNING ACROSS A ROAD.

HOBSON STREET FATALITY. Fatal injuries were received by Gladys duple!, aged about eight years, whose parents reside at 98, Cook Street, as tho result of being knocked down by a mot'.rvnn in Hobson Street at eight o'clocklast evening. r J he girl suffered a fiacture of the skull and fractures of both thighs, her death being practically instantaneous. The child, in company with other children, was returning home after attending a jumble sale at tho Dock Street Mission. She walked up the left-hand side of Hobson Street, and, when near the Prince of Wales Hotel, suddenly darted across tho street. Traffic was very heavy at, that hour and the girl narrowly missed being struck by a bicycle, ridden by Mrs. E. M. A. Wigg, who was proceeding up the road. She continued running across tho street and was knocked clown by a motor-van driven by Mr. Raymond Harold Richardson, of Papakura, who was travelling down Hobson Street.

Two passers-by, Messrs. Harry Woods and Joseph Blake, of Hobson Street, immediately rushed to her assistance arid took tho child to a near by house. The St. John ambulance was quickly on the scene, but life was already extinct. An eye-witness, Mrs. K. Johnson, wife of the licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, said the child ran across the road like a hare. The lady cyclist was riding close to the kerb and the girl just avoided being struck by the bicycle. The motor-van was proceeding at a moderate speed and tho driver had no time to avoid striking the child, who ran right into its path.