ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20612, 10 January 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PINNED UNDER MOTOR CAR. - (Per United Press Association.) . DARGAVILLE, January 9, Last evening a five-seater car, the occupants of -which were J. C. Ward (of Waimana, Bay of Plenty), R. D. Ward,, his wife, and his mother, after a tour of the north, experienced engine trouble at Waipoua Forest. Help was sent from Donnelly’s Crossing. The lady members of the party were transferred to the rescuing car, the male members remaining.in the disabled car, with R. D. Ward at the wheel. . Things went well till Katui was reached, when the tow rope became entangled in the and the car went over a steep bank, pinning J. C. Ward underneath. He was extricated, and a doctor was sent out from Dargaville to attend to him. The injured man was brought to Dargaville today by train, and gent to hospital for X-ray treatment. The extent of the injuries is not yet known. Mr E. D. Ward, the other ocoupant, was not injured, CROSSING COLLISION. MOTORIST’S LUCKY ESCAPE. '■ " (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 9. The Argyle street crossing saw another collision this morning, when the Wbanearer express crashed into a lorry loaded with mineral waters. Although the front of the vehicle was badly damaged and the axle ripped away, the driver (Frank Norman) was not even scratched. A DETERMINED SUICIDE. ’(Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. January 9. Henry Heiniach, aged 79 years, committed suicide at Springston this morning by drowning, after severing an artery in Ins wrist. DROWNED IN LAKE WAKATIPU. (Special to Daily Tuies.) ■ QUEENSTOWN, January 9. An old man named George Clark, about 70 years of age, employed on the relief works on the Kingston-Queenstown road, was reported missing yesterday afternoon. On a search being made, his body was found in about four feet of water in Lake Wakatipu, about 300 yards distant from the public works camp. The evidence given at an inquiry, held to-day before the coroner (Mr D. F. Sutherland), went to show that the deceased had been a little melancholy and restless, and had complained of not feeling very well. He had not gone to work in the morning. There were no marks of violence on the body. The verdict was that the deceased had taken his life by drowning. Clark was unmarried. He spent the holidays in Dunedin. FALL FROM BICYCLE. Allan Mitchell, a single man, aged 31 years, residing at l*ing street, Mosgiel, and employed as a clerk at the Mosgiel Woollen Mills, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 3 p.m. yesterday, Buffering from a fracture of the loft leg. The injury was received through being knocked off his bicycle by a motor car Gordon road, Mosgiel.