LITTLE GIRL KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 8

LITTLE GIRL KILLED

THROWN ON TO ROAD MOTHER ALSO INJURED CARS COLLIDE AT CORNER [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] INVERCARGILL, Friday Flung from her mother's arms when tho car in which they were travelling collided with another at an intersection at Woodlands, about 12 miles north fiom Invercargill, this morning, a child aged four years, Lorna Mclntyre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mclntyre, of Longbush, struck the side of the roadway on her head and received injuries from which sho died in hospital two hours later. The child's mother was also admitted to hospital suffering from injuries to the left thigh and abrasions to the head. Mr. Mclntyre was driving a light sedan car and his wife and child were passengers in the front seat, tho child sitting on her mother's knee. At the intersection a collision occurred • with a fiveseater touring car, driven by a man also with his wife and one child. The child, Lorna Mclntyre, was thrown from the car to the left side of the road, and when picked up was found to be suffering from a cut on the left side of the head, having been thrown right out of her mother s arms. A doctor was summoned and, after they had received attention, the mother and child were taken to hospital in Invercargill. Both cars were damaged. It is stated that the intersection has been the scene of four previous accidents recently.