ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22505, 25 February 1935, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CAR SMASH NEAR BALCLUTHA TWO PERSONS INJURED. While travelling from Dunedin on Saturday afternoon a motor car containing three people left the road and plunged over a 100 foot bank on a hill about nve miles north of Balclutha. One of the occupants, Miss Gwenyth Nairn, had her left leg broken, and Mr Arthur Eraser suffered spinal injuries, the extent of which will not be known until an X-ray examination has been made. Both were admitted to the Balclutha Hospital. The driver of the car, Mr Arthur Linley Nairn, a brother of the injured girl, escaped with minor cuts and abrasions. The accident occurred on the Stoney Creek Hill—a long incline with a steep bank on the left-hand side. The party was returning from a holiday spent at Picton and Nelson, and when approaching the top of the hill the driver pulled the ear over to the left, at the same time keeping a lookout for cars coming over the brow. The front wheels of the car got into a rut, and before he could do anything, the vehicle had turned completely over, and plunged down the slope to the bottom. Messrs Nairn and Fraser are in business. together at Tuatapere. Miss Nairn resides with her parents at Invercargill. ACCIDENT AT ST. LEONARDS INQUEST ON VICTIM OPENED. An inquest into the death of Isabella Brown, a single woman, aged 53, who was killed through being struck by a motor lorry at St. Leonard's on Saturday morning, was opened iat the Morgue before the coroner (Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.). Sergeant Boulton represented the police. After evidence of .identification was taken the inquiry was adjourned sine die. CYCLIST INJURED While riding his bicycle down Burlington street on Saturday afternoon a married man named Thomas Rowe, aged 47 years, collided with a telegraph post, suffering injuries to his head. The injured man, who resides at 27 Melbourne street, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 6.15. A FRACTURED LEG A single man named William Hughes, aged 45 years, residing at 81 Dundas street, was admitted to the Public Hospital at 6.30 p.m. yesterday suffering from a fracture of the left leg. He received the injury when he slipped in the backyard of his home. VICTIM OF FLOOD EFFORT TO RESCUE STOCK. (Per United Press Association) WHANGAREI, February 23. Geddes Maunsell, aged 38, a Native, married, with six children, was drowned at Nukutawhiti yesterday afternoon. When trying to rescue stock from a flooded paddock on his own farm he got into a swirling torrent, 10 feet deep, and disappeared. The body was recovered this morning. . DISTRESSING FATALITY OLD MAN KILLED. (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 24. Fatal injuries were received by Frederick Cossey, aged 88, of Mount Albert, as the result of being knocked down by a ear. Mr Cossey was walking across the New North road on his way to the Mount Albert Methodist Church when he was struck by a car driven by the P»ev. Dr J. J. North, who was on hip way to take a service at Avondale. Mr Cossey was taken into the church until the ambulance arrived. He received concussion and severe shock, and his death occurred after his admission to the hospital. Mr Cossey was a very well known pioneer of the Drury district. SERIOUS MOTOR COLLISION WOMAN FATALLY INJURED. i (Per United Press Association) CAMBRIDGE. February 23. As the result of a fatal collision which occurred between two cars at an intersection near Leamington at 11 a.m., a well-known Maungatautari resident, Mrs P. W. Suckling, was bo severely injured

that she died within five minutes. Mrs Suckling and her daughter Audrey were driving homewards from Cambridge. The other car was proceeding towards Cambridge from Rotoorangi. The two cars met at the intersection with considerable force, Mrs Suckling's car, a 6edan, being overturned and the hood being completely crushed in. Mies Suckling suffered severely from shock and skin abrasions. The other car was an open tourer, owned by Mr A. R. Cox, of Rotoorangi, and was driven by Miss Margaret Cox, with her sister Dorothy as a passenger. Both suffered from shock, but were otherwise uninjured. Mr and Mrs Suckling and their family of one son and one daughter came to Cambridge from Morere, Hawke'e Bay, about three years ago, taking up farming at Maungatautari. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED COLLISION WITH CAR. (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, February 24. Thomas Leadley Weir, aged 26, a single man, was killed on the intersection of Newlands and Fairton roads, Ashburton, at 7.30 p.m. yesterday. He was riding a motor cycle with his brother, Samuel George Weir, on the pillion, when he collided with a car driven by Mr Montague Cooke, manager of the Seafield Irrigation Farm, and received injuries to the head from which he died in a few minutes. His brother received abrasions and shock, and was admitted to a private hospital in Ashburton. Thomas Weir was a son of the manager of the Selma estate, Chertsey. Mr Cooke was unhurt.