ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 14

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATALITY AT OPHIR CYC&E and car collide. The death occurred on Thursday of David Ernest Pitches, aged 21. as the result of an accident last Sunday, when ho collided with a motor car at the Ophir bridge while riding a motor cycle. Pitches was immediately removed to the Clyde Hospital suffering from severe injuries. He was the second son of Mr Ernest Pitches, of Ophir. A FRACTURED LEG Through falling over a stick during a game, William Allan, aged eight years, residing with his parents at 21 Tyne street, was admitted to the Pubbc Hospital at 7 o’clock last night with a fractured right leg. MOTOR CYCLIST GRAVELY INJURED (Per United Press Association) INVERCARGILL, November 29. A motor cyclist named Henry Grell, aged 22, collided with a lorry near Ryal Bush this afternoon, and was thrown heavily on to the bonnet of the lorry. Both his thighs were fractured, and he also suffered a compound fracture of the left leg, in addition to a cut on the lip. He is at present in the Southland Hospital, his condition being very grave. The motor cvcle struck the lorry on the front left-hand side. The rider was catapulted on to the bonnet. Ins head shattering the windscreen.