ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED BY MOTOR LORRY. (Per United Press Association.) WHANGAREI, February 19. George Boswell, the 13-ycar-old son it Thomas Boswell, carrier and contractor, of Hikurangi, was killed on Saturday evening through a lorry running over his chest. The driver, W Myers, had entered a house at W’ard, leaving the boy on the seat. By some means ho started no vehicle and fell out, being discovered still alive on the roadway by neighbours who drove to a doctor, but on arrival the Doy was dead. YOUNG MAN - DROWNED. A TRAGIC SEQUEL. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 19,. Some time ou Friday evening Frederick William Harrison aged 19, fell off the wharf into the harbour. Ho evidently struck his head on something and was drowned. The family are living in two different houses and each thought the young man was with the other. Yesterday afternoon a boy fishing on the wharf saw the body and notified the police. A constable sought the assistance of a man working with a boat on the beach, and the man rowed out to the body, turfied it over, and discovered that it was his own son. There was an extensive bruise on the forehead. It was discloced that the young man had intended to board a launch lying beside the wharf, and in going down the ladder ho had probably fallen. He could not swim and he may have been rendered unconscious by the fall. LEVIN CROSSING SMASH. SECOND VICTIM SUCCUMBS. (Per United Press Association.) LEVIN, February 18. Herbert Wilmor Eyes, the second victim of yesterday’s level crossing accident near Levin, died in hospital this morning. Mr? Eyes was killed instantaneously The crossing whore the tragedy occurred is a particularly dangerous one. the road approaching the line from the east, turning to the right, and running parallel with tiie line for eight chains, then turning sharply across it. The railway track comes on a down grade from the south to the crossing. Mr and Mrs Eyes were engaged in delivering bread. The train struck their van fairly in the middle, completely wreck inn- *it and scattered fragments to a distance of four chains past the crossing. Mr Eyes was until recently farming near levin. They leave a family of three young children. __ A CARRIER’S DEATH. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 18. At the inquest concerning the death of Thomas George Needham, a carrier, who died on February 11 following a collision between a horse and cart and a tramcar in Tinakori road, Dr Lynch gave it as his opinion that death was due to injuries to the chest and liver, complicated by pneumonia, which arose as the result of chest injuries. A post mortem showed that eight ribs had been fractured. Dr Alexander Robertson said he examined Needham at deceased’s home, and found him to be suffering from pneumonia. Needham said he had been X-rayed at the hospital, and told that no bones were broken. He had pressed Needham’s chest -with both hands, but Needham did not complain of any pain. The hospital superintendent indicated that if the patient were mentally capable of judging for himself and chose to leave the hospital, witness would have no legal right to keep him. It was stated by Dr Lynch, who is pathologist at the hospital, that X-ray examinations frequently failed to reveal fractures of the ribs for the reason that they were frequently produced without displacement of bone ends. The proceedings "were adjourned for the evidence of the doctor who attended Needham at the hospital. STRUCK BY MOTOR BUS. MAN KILLED INSTANTANEOUSLY. (Per United Press Association.) - NELSON, February 19. Shortly after midnight a man named William Gay, single, a labourer, aged 55, was killed on the Pic-ton road near Spring Creek, being run over by a motor bus, driven by John Edward Hurbley, a taxi driver, of Picton. The deceased crossed the road in front of the bus, which swerved to avoid him. The man staggered back, and was hit by the radiator, and the wheel also passed over him, death being instantaneous. FATAL BLASTING ACCIDENT. (Pee United Press Association.) NELSON, February 19. William Tennett, aged 40, of Neil street, Nelson, was injured in a blasting accident yesterday. He was admitted to hospital last night, and died it 11.25 this morning. BODY FOUND AT LUPINES. On Saturday afternoon, about S o’clock, the body of a man, which has been identified as that of William Jenkins, a widower, with a family residing at Mandeville, near Gore, was found on a track at the lupines near St. Kilda. There was nothing to indicate the cause of death. The man had been dead only a short time when found. An inquest will be held this moaning. FRACTURED WRIST AND ABRASIONS. A boy named Jack Doig was admitted to the -Hospital shortly after noon on Saturday, suffering from a fractured left wrist and abrasions to the head He was riding a bicycle at the junction ot Cumberland and Lower High streets when he collided with a motor car. ITis homo is at Easther crescent, Kew. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. Norman ‘M'Garva, aged 22 years, a resident of Temuka, was admitted to the Hospital at 3.10 p.m. on Saturday with | facial injuries. He was riding a motor j cycle in the hill-climbing tests when his i machine ran into a bank, 1