ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20799, 19 August 1929, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR CYCLIST’S DEATH. HIS MOTHER SEVERELY INJURED. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 18. A motor cyclist named Ronald Hugh Brownlee collided with a motor lorry, and was ginned with his machine under the vehicle, his clothes being practically torn off. He was removed" to the hospital in a serious condition, where he died dudpg the afternoon. Brownlee, who was 23 years of agp, was an electrician " e nj'ployed liy’ fl)c Public Works Department. ' |ly an extraordinary coincidence, Brownlee’s mother, kfrs ‘Mary Brpwnjce, was severely jpjprec[ Vlieu crossing the rpaji at thp spot where her soil received fatal injuries. She stepped off the fpotpath late in the evening ip the heavy rajn and was struck by a car, suffering injupps tp her head anti phpst apfl a broken leg. Hpr cphditjpn is jn?prdving. MfVN ! S SUDDEN COLLAPSE. (Per Unit™ Press Association.) ~ 4ppl£|iAND, Augpst J 7. Edwin King, aged 03, collapsed and died whflq watpjdng the Hawse’s 33ay ; - AnekLuiid Rrjgby matph at Eden park this afternoon. He resided at Maiigpvc. STRUCK BY A MOTQ|I CA$. \yOMAN FATALLY INJURED. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 17. An inquest’was held to-day regarding the death of Mrs Florence Alton, aged 63, through being struck by a motor car driven by Frederick C. Facer, near Akatarawa Junction, on the main road thrpugh Upper Hutt. Evidence was given by Robert Anderson that Facer’s car was passing that pf witness at the time and the visibility was had, it being neither daylight por dark. " The. 4e: ceased’s sister stqtpd that, seeing t}jp lights of what appeared to hp several cars trayplling abreast, f?l)p apfl the tjfU ceased stood shijl" for fear pi jjplng rpn over. The deceased was wheeljpg a hipycle which was not lighted. 66hswhle Joss said that Facer had'prqde a slate;' PlPfft to hijn ip wljich he said ‘he was sure the bipycle >vas being Fhgplcd gp tfie hillipiep surface ani| that* af' Ipasi , pup woniap ‘ was on the bjtumen.' The cqrpper (hfr Barton j said thaf ip vieiy of the "evidence he flifl not tfjiijk'. ife was necessary for Facer tp' g}ve evidenced He |rad no dipculty fn retyping’‘hlS verdict. It was that fhe decease!! wps killed on the Main North road near Upper Hiitf J)y injuries received ip a collisipn betweep her and a motor car drivpn‘hy Facer. “That is iny .copiplete ffpding on all the points that "are raised by t|re evidence given before me at"this said tike cprpiieVi‘ “ ’mating of the general application pi what | deep) to be the elepientary principle pf tftp law, I .think’ it right and necessary to add a ridep that may act for the pydtectipn of. the public. ‘lt jg ‘that* pedes; tfjaps have “the right to use’ jh; eluding t&P bjtumen portjoh of the roads, and especially ih epputry districts where there are no footpaths they must be taken into account as persons reasonably likejy fo'be'thereJ*’ '' ‘ GAR AMP TRAIN CQLLipg. . THREE PERSONS INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) > WELLINGTON, August 18. A motor car carrying four passengers collided with a train at the Camp road level crossing at Trehtham'at about 8.45 o’c)qck .on Saturday pight. The car \?aa badly knpeked about. Although all tjie occupants escaped serious’injury, Harold Sanderson, of King street, Upper Hutt (the driver), a plumbing apprentice, received a scalp’ wound Daniel" Auld, of 18 Henry street, Uppjr Hutt, an apprentice boilermaker, received wounds on his face and knees; and George M'Kegney, of 20 Benzie avenue, Upper Hutt, a shop assistant, received ap injury to his left hand. All were suffering from shock. Eric ButJer, the fourth passgpger, was uninjurpd. STRUCK BY FLYING STONE. MAN FATALLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association,) CHRISTCHURCH, August; 17. Struck by a flying stqpe jpgt'over tfle flyer during blasting operations on the Gebbie’s Pass road shortly after 9 a.mi to-day, Jobu Hubber, a widower, aged abqpt 53, was gravely injured anfl died within an hour apd a-hair. Hubber had been employed pp this jqbj which is one of thp Public Works Department’s relief works, for abput three weeks. Another man, John Daly, was struck on the hip by another stone at the same time, but was only slightly bruised. The meii had received due warning of the blast The force of the explosion is showi) by thp fact that Hubber was 80 yards away from the place where the charge of gelignite was inserted. A fairly large piece of rock was hm’jed out, struck him op the bpdy, and it is thqught ruptured hip liver. Haemorrhage set in and he died at 11 a.m., an hour and a-haif after he was struck. He was dead by the time a doetop arrived froip Lyttp)tpp. The body was taken to Lyttelton. Daly was working witji Rubber at the fipie of the explosion. The charge pf gelignite was inserted threp or four feet ip a boulder near the side of the road. Rubber and Daly did not belong to .the gang that used the gelignite. It is stated that a large number of men was employed on the road at the time. FOUND DEAD IN HUT. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. With the top of his head blowp off, Alfred King, a middle-aged man, was found dead in his sleeping hut at thp rear of R. Musson's bakery yesterday. King was formerly in charge of one of Musson’s coffee stalls. He was found lying ou the floor of the hut witli a shotgun across his chest. Some weeks ago another employee was found dead in another of the sleeping huts. At the inquest to-day into the death of King evidence was given by fellowemployees that he bad beep worried apd depressed lately owing to his indifferent state of health. The coroner (Mr E. 0, Levvcy, S.M.) returned a verdict of suicide. BOY’S LEG FRACTURED. William A. Rustin, aged 12 years, was admitted to the Hospital on Satyr’ day afternoon suffering from a fracture of the left leg, received by falling from a tree. He resides with his parents at 128 Glen road. KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR CYCLE. While crossing Princes street south near the Oval on Thursday afternoon, a girl named Maureen Duggan, a pupil at St. Philoraena’s College, was knocked down by a motor cycle, and received in-

juries to the head and severe bruises on the body. She was removed to Stafford Hospital, where sho is progressing favourably. °