MANY ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23602, 11 March 1940, Page 9

MANY ACCIDENTS

STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR YOUTH GRAVELY HURT PLIGHT OF COMPANION NOT NOTICED DOWN BANK [by telf.guaph—own correspondent] NAPIER, Saturday Serious injuries were suffered by one .youth, and another was slightly hurt when they were knocked down by a car as they werg walking along the Napier-Hastings road near Awatoto at about midnight on Friday. The plight of one of them was not discovered until the early hours of the morning. The injured are Maxwell .Tolm Morgan, aged 15, of Napier, injury to the brain, condition grave, and Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, aged 16, of Awatoto. The car was driven by Mr. Dick Huata, of Frazertown, Wairoa, and was travelling toward Hastings. The car driver gave assistance to Morgan and conveyed him to the Napier Hospital. O'Sullivan fell over a bank and escaped being noticed. He lay there in a dazed condition, and came-to only as the car was moving off. His cries, bowever, failed to attract attention.

PETROL EXPLOSION MAN AND WIFE BURNED HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE As the result of a petrol explosion, a man and his wife suffered burns and fire damaged a State house at .'5 Cadman Avenue, One Tree Hill, on Saturday. The occupier, Mr. Arnold Daniel Richards, aged 32, was cleaning overalls in petrol in the wash-house, when apparently the heat from the copper, which had been lit, caused the explosion. The fire spread rapidly, and Mr. Richards was burned on his hands, feet and chest, while his hair and eyebrows were singed. Mrs. Richards, who entered tlio wash-house just as the explosion occurred, also suffered burns. They were treated by Dr. K. F. Gordon, of Green Lane, and Mr. Richards was later taken to the Auckland Hospital, where his condition last nightwas reported to be not serious. Because there was no alarm system in the new suburb, a neighbour had to drive to the Great South Road fire station to inform the brigade. A machine from Remuera also attended the fire, which had a strong hqld when the firemen arrived. Furniture was removed from danger, but the wash-house was gutted and the kitchenette was fairly badly damaged.

MISHAPS IN THE CITY MOTORISTS AND CYCLISTS Motor accidents resulted in five persons being injured and admitted to the Auckland Hospital for treatment during the week-end. None was seriously injured. In addition, four other persons, three of them having been in one motor-car, were treated and discharged. When a motor-cyclist and a cyclist collided at Mangere on Saturday afternoon, the motor-cyclist. J. C. Webster, single, aged 19, of Glenwood Road, Mangere, suffered a fracture of the right leg and the cyclist, J. A. Forsyth, of Hall Avenuq,. Ma ngere, suffered concussion. Mrs. Ethel Irene Hudson, aged 38, of Tramway Road, Puni, suffered a broken leg when two motor-cars came into collision at the corner of Domain Road and Puni Road. Pukekohe, about 8 p.m. yesterday. Both overturned, but Mrs. Hudson, wife of one of the drivers, was the only one injured. She was taken to the Auckland Hospital after attention from Dr. H. S. Douglas, of Pukekohe. A fracture of the left leg was suffered by Mr. Harold Ivan Henriksen, single, aged 26, of 209 Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, when his motor-cycle collided with a car in Wellesley Street. A girl, Catherine O'Connell. aged 17. daughter of Mr. T. B. O'Connell, of Miro Road, Ohakune, suffered injuries to her right knee when a motor-car in which she was a passenger capsized.

KICKED BY A HORSE CHILD BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL Kicked on the head by a horse when ho was helping to feed chickens, a two-years-old hoy, Colin Ashley Guhb, son of a Port Albert farmer, was brought to the Auckland Hospital last night with concussion and a suspected fracture ol the skull. He was admitted at 11.25.

WOMAN'S THIGH BROKEN MISHAP AT WHANGAREI [tROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANG AT? EI, Sunday Falling in Water Street, Whangarei. yesterday afternoon, Mrs. L. A. Burns broke her right third and was taken to the hospital. Mr. Burns has just left Whangarei, where he has boon postmaster, on transfer as postmaster at Hastings.

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED [HV TKLEORA PH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNE DIN, Sunday A Wellington resident, Mrs. Amelia McMillan, aged ">O, was admitted lo hospital last night suffering from concussion and head injuries as a result of being knoeked down by si motor-car at the corner of George Street and Moray Place. She has been placed on the dangerously ill list.