ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20690, 12 April 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

level Crossing smash. DRIVER OF CAR KILLED. (Peb United Press Association.) ■’ . AUCKLAND, April 11. . While an outgoing train was travailin' 1 towards Otahuhu at 1,45 this afternoon it struck a motor car at the Southdown level crossing, smashing it against the cattle stop.' Mr Spence Atkinson, aged residing at One Tree Hill, the . driver of the car, was thrown out and fatally injured. The car, a light five-seater, was proceeding over the crossing in the direction of the Great South road, and Mr Atkinson slowed down. The engine stalled when the machine was across the rails. Mr Atkinson was thrown out, striking the stop with terrific force. An 'ambulance was summoned, but the injured mart died on his way to the Auckland Hospital. A FATAL FALL. (Pee United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 11. “ William Marsh, aged 20, was killed this morning hy falling from and being run over by a cpsher on the main north road, near Waitara.' DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. (Pee United Press Association.) MASTERTON, April 11.' , When under an anaesthetic following an operation Ruakura Himiona, a married woman, of Te Ore Ore, died in the Masterton Hospital yesterday. FALL FROM A LADDER. : GARDENER FATALLY INJURED. (Per United - Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 11. Rfthard Gough, a gardener, of Woburn road, Lower Hutt, while trimming a hush to-day, fell from a ladder, fracturing his skull. He died in hospital. An -inquest will he held. , DEATH FROM BURNS. (Pbr United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 11. James Lionel Worsdale died at the hospital as the result of severe burns received at the Coleridge power house on F”’day while cleaning electric cables. He was 41 years of age and married. YOUNG GIRL FATALLY INJURED. . KNOCKED DOWN. BY MOTOR CAR. , A young girl named Betty Denton, "two and a-half years of age, whose .parents reside in 7 Ellis street, was .admitted to the Public Hospital at 2.30 "yesterday afternoon, as a result of being knocked down by a motor ear in King street in front of the Union Hat Factory. She was suffering from head injuries and died at 3.15. The inquest was opened at the Hospital at 4.30 p.m. before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., sitting as coroner. Sergeant Boulton represented the police. After evidence of identification had been taken, the inquest was adjourned until '.Monday.