ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23225, 24 June 1937, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTOR CYCLIST’S DEATH COLLISION WITH CAR ' (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 23. Fatal head injuries were suffered by a motor cyclist, Victor Percival Yates, a telegraph messenger, aged 17, of Ponsonby road, when he came into collision with a motor car driven by Christian Henry Dubi, a farmer, of Huapai, at an intersection. Yates was riding along Ponsonby road, and came in contact with the front of the motor car, which was travelling in the opposite direction across Ponsonby road into Pollen street. Yates struck his head on the radiator of the car and was thrown heavily to the pavement. He was unconscious when picked up. and died before tl ; ambulance arrived. DEATH FROM ASPHYXIA INQUIRY INTO SULPHUR FIRE (Per United Press Association) WANGANUI, June 23. A verdict that John Oscar Bovey, chemical manure works labourer, of Wanganui, died at Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.’s works at Aramoho on April 23 last as a result of injuries suffered when working on a sulphur elevator, the cause of death being asphyxia from sulphur dioxide gas, was returned by the coroner (Mr S, M. Dixon) at Wanganui to-day. The inciuiry was conducted as a result of a fire at the works, when Bovey and several other men were engaged in work attendant upon the unloading of sulphur from trucks by means of an elevator. i , . The evidence of the men working with Bovey in the elevator compartment was that when a belt was replaced on a pulley the elevator ran back, and a spark was created, which ignited the sulphur dust. Stuart Mitchell, an inspector of machinery, said the elevator was the standard equipment designed to meet all normal use, plus a margin of safety. BLOOD POISONING DEATH OF A MACHINIST (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 23. The coroner, Mr Gilbertson, found that the death of Ronald John Buck, aged 21. a machinist at the Prestige Hosiery Mills, was duo to blood poisoning, following a wound in his hand. The deceased, it appeared from the evidence, told a fellow-worker that some oil used in the factory had got into the cut.

BUS STRUCK BY TRUCK

THREE PASSENGERS INJURED

(Per United Press Association) ASHBURTON. June 23

Minor injuries were suffered by three women passengers when a bus was struck and capsized by a rake of trucks at the railway crossing last night. Mrs Harris, of Wellington, received treatment at the hospital, but is not in a serious condition. The bus was carried several yards before overturning. It was not extensively damaged.

YOUNG FOOTBALLER’S DEATH

FATALITY ON PLAYING FIELD

While playing for Tapanui District High School at Tapanui yesterday in the annual Rugby football match with Lawrence District High School, Gordon Buchanan, aged 15 years, dropped dead. The lad, who was a son of Mr David Buchanan, forest ranger at Tapanui. was running with the ball, and, when he was collared, collapsed and died. It is staled that he had been warned not to play football on account of a heart weakness. An inquest will be held at Tapanui to-morrow. The football match was abandoned after the fatality. A DISLOCATED KNEE While playing football for Otago Boys’ High School against Southland Boys’ High School at Carisbrook yesterday, Alan Titchener, residing at 75 Beach street. St. Clair, suffered a dislocated knee. He was admitted to Hospital at 4 p.m. A FRACTURED SHOULDER While pushing herself in a wheel chair yesterday, Sarah Freeland, an elderly woman, residing at 21 Jackson street, Kaikorai. suffered a fractured left shoulder. She was admitted to the Hospital at 4.45 p.m