SHOCKING ACCIDENT

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 6

SHOCKING ACCIDENT

YOUNG WOMAN KILLED KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR-CAR Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 29 Struck by a motor-car. Miss Catherine May Sinith, aged 31 years, received fatal injuries when running to catch a tramcar in Patteson street. Freeman’s Bay, at 7.30 o clock to* D Miss Smith received terrible head injuries and a compound fracture of the right leg just above the ankle. Death was almost instantaneous. Miss Smyth and her younger sister, Annie, were running across from Franklin road to catch the Herne Bay tram, which was standing in Patteson street. Miss Annie Smyth was in the lead and cleared the motor, which was coming from the city and driven by J. Brady, taxi-driver, of >34, \Vood street, Freeman’s Bay. Miss Catherine Smyth was struck heavily and was carried a few yards before being thrown clear. Mr Brady at one© wheeled his car and returned to the scene of the accident. Miss Smyth was thrown heavily on the concrete road and although the St. John Ambulance was on the scene within three minutes, she was already pnst succour. Tlie body, which was shockingly mutilated, was removed to the hospital morgue. Miss Smyth had resided with her parents at 8, Collingwood street, Ponsonby, and had left her home hut a few moments before the fatal accident.