INVALID KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22970, 23 February 1938, Page 12

INVALID KILLED

RUNAWAY MOTOR-CHAIR •' CAPSIZE ON STEEP GRADE NO WITNESS OF ACCIDENT >,£• NATALITY AT WELLINGTON [by telegraph—own correspondent] • * WELLINGTON, Tuesday Fatal head injuries were suffered by ASan invalid, Mr. Charles Tremewan, aged 53, of Homewood Avenue, Karori, v.£; when his motor-chair apparently gotout of control and overturned on a steep grade in Sydney Street, at the />'- rear of Parliament Buildings, at about 10 o'clock this morning. Making his way to the city, Mr 4 Tremewan had travelled a long distance before turning into Sydney Street. No one is known to have seen the accident, but a passer-by found Mr. Tremewan lying at the roadside in ■ an unconscious condition, having been thrown out of his invalid chair. Ifc J| appeared as though, in an attempt to check the increasing speed of the chair, ■ . Mr. Tremewan had steered it toward the kerb, which it struck with great force and overturned. On the arrival of an ambulance, Mr. : Tremewan's condition was critical,, his head having been severely injured, He was taken to the Wellington Hospital : i and died about four hours after admission without regaining consciousness.