ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE TWO PERSONS KILLED (Per United Press Association) WHANGAREI, Feb. 17. As the result of a collision between a sports car and a light truck near Kaikohe yesterday afternoon Joseph Whitefield, aged 47, married, with two grown-up children, received head injuries from which he died in the Rawene Hospital early this morning. The six-weeks-old infant child of Mr and Mrs George Dalton, who were passengers in the truck, which was driven by Jack Etiha, also died this morning The mother and father were badly bruised. Murray Boyd, the driver of the car in which Whitefield was a passenger. escaped with a scratch on the nose. RAILWAY PORTER KILLED COLLIDES WITH TELEGRAPH POLE (Per United Press Association) TIMARU, Feb 17 Apparently while looking round trying to hook up the rear stand of a motor cycle which was dragging. Ivan Rawson, aged 20. a railway porter, collided with a telegraph post near the Commercial Hotel, suffering severe injuries from which he died a few hours later. GIRL’S DEATH DUE TO CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE An inquest into the death of Sylvia Douglas Wilkinson, aged 23 years, who died on Tuesday morning following a fall from her bicycle the previous day was held before Mr J. R. Bartholomew S.M., yesterday. Evidence of identification was given by Leonard Wilkinson, father of the deceased. Daphne Jessie Simpson, dressmaker stated that at about 6 p.m, on Monday she left her home in Cumberland street with the deceased. Both were riding bicycles, and they rode out to Woodhaiigh. On the way back, as they neared the corner of George street and Duke street, the deceased drew in to the side of the roadway as if to stop beside the telephone box. She out out her hand to rest against it and appeared to slip and fall, striking the back of her head on the road. A passerby conveyed her to her home. Chester Mariah Pike, student, gave evidence of the girl’s condition after she had been brought home. Dr James Fitzgerald stated that he had been called to attend the deceased on Monday night and at that time her condition did not appear to be serious Apparently it changed later, but he was not informed and death took place the following morning.. He examined the body and gave his opinion that drain was due to cerebral haemorrhage The coroner remarked that this wa« -I type of concussion which occurred from time to time The condition did not apnear. at first to be serious bir evidently there had been some intercranial damage and a haemorrhage had taken place. He returned a verdict in oecordancc with the medical evidence DEATH FOLLOWING ACCIDENT INQUEST OPENED An inquest into circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas Simpson aged 57 years, who died on Monday night, in the Hospiptal. where he had been admitted for treatment for a badly lacerated hand, was opened at the Hos pital yesterday morning before Mr J. R. Bartholomew. S.M., and was adjourned after evidence of identification had been taken. FALL FROM WOOL STACK MAN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Joseph Buchanan, a married man. 47 years of age, living in Fox street Port Chalmers, suffered injuries to his loft wrist and facial abrasions when he fell from a stack of wool in the shed of Messrs John Mill and Co. at Pert Chalmers yesterday. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 10 a.m.