THROWN THROUGH WINDSCREEN.
BOY SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. ACCIDENT CAUSED BY DOG. (Special ro Daily Limes.j CHRISTCHURCH, December 13. A tragic motor car smash occurred on the road from Sockburn on -u.onday evening at' 6.30, when a small boy, aged six years and a-half, suffered injuries to his face. Ho died later in the evening in the Christchurch Hospital. Bruce Garner Kollar was_ the only son of Mr and Mrs George Kellar, of J.OO Riccarton road, his father being a City Council traffic inspector. He was driving with his mother along the Main South road, when a dog which was in the car sprang on to the steering wheel. Mrs Kellar momentarily lost control, and the car crashed into the fence. The boy was thrown through the windscreen, his face being gashed open. He was taken to the hospital and operated on. but he {ailed to come out of the anaesthetic. Mrs ivellar was not injured, but is suffering from shock. The inquest on the boy was opened and adjourned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20281, 14 December 1927, Page 10
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