A TRAGIC COINCIDENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 10

A TRAGIC COINCIDENCE.

YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MOTHER. (Special to Daily Times.) . AUCKLAND, August 19. The death of the young man, Ronald Hugh Brownlee, who lived for only seven hours after he was recovered on Saturday morning from underneath a motor lorry in Dominion road, was followed in the evening by a serious accident to his mother close to the place where her son was fatally injured. The death of Ronald Brownlee occurred as the result of a collision between his motor cycle and a motor . lorry in the vicinity of the Dominion Road Post Office at 0 o'clock on Saturday evening. His mother, who had come to Auckland immediately on hearing, of the accident, was knocked down in Dominion road by taxi. Mr Brownlee, a single man, aged 24, along Dominion road at about 8 o’clock, and, in accelerating to pass between two motor cars, he crossed in front of a motor lorry which was about to turn down Bellwood avenue. He was pinned with his machine under the lorry, and one of the wheels passed over his abdomen. When the accident happened Mrs Brownlee was at Te Kowhai, near Ngaruawahia, and Mr J. L. Brownlee* father of the dead man, was at Te Aroha, Before Mrs Brownlee met with her accident she had visited the hospital, and was on her way- to Paica avenue. Dominion road, where her- son had been staying. At the corner of Grange road she alighted from a Dominion road tramcar and was knocked down while walking from the tram to the footpath by a Black and White taxi driven by Clarence Williams. Owing to heavy rain and the poor visibility, Mrs Brownlee failed to see the motor car until it Was too late to .avoid an accident. Her left leg was broken, and she had injuries to her head and chest. This morning a very slight im- j proyement was reported in her condition. ! Her husband reached Auckland late on Saturday evening, and was then informed of the tragic coincidence involving the death of his son and serious injuries to his wife. j / During 1026 Eric Brownlee, the second/ son of Mr and Mrs Brownlee, met with his death at Russell by falling over a cliff while goat shooting.