ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23590, 29 August 1938, Page 15

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRUCK STRIKES POLE DRIVER’S EXTENSIVE INJURIES (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. Concussion, abrasions and an injury to his back and a possible fracture of the ribs were suffered by a bushman, John Edward Turnwald, aged 44 years, married, of Waitakere, when a truck he was driving crashed into a telegraph pole on Saturday afternoon. The driver was thrown on to the side of the road, about 30 feet from the truck. The accident occurred outside the mental hospital on the Great North road. Turnwald was driving alone at the time, and it is thought that the truck skidded on the wet concrete and struck the pole. A taxi driver ■ arrived on the scene and found Turnwald lying unconscious, with his head on the kerbing. KICK FRACTURES RIBS (Per United Press Association) ' AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. Fractured ribs and shock were suffered by Tui Alfred Adams, aged 17 years, as a result of a kick while he was playing football on Saturday afternoon. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where an operation was performed. STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR MAN FATALLY INJURED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON. Aug. 28. A fatal accident occurred on the Hutt road at 7 o’clock on Saturday night, a pedestrian being knocked down by a motor car and killed. The victim of the accident was a carpenter named Neilsen, aged about 50 years, a single man, residing at 78 Cuba street, Petone. He received severe head injuries, Neilsen, who was a native of Finland, was endeavouring to cross the Hutt road just north of the new overhead bridge between Kaiwarra and Thorndon. He was proceeding toward Wellington when a car going in the same direction struck him. He was dead when picked up. SWEPT TO SEA CARTER AND THREE HORSES DROWNED »Per United Press Association > WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. Caught by the incoming surf while carting shingle on the beach at Ohiro Bay, Wellington, yesterday, Harry Perrett, aged 68 years, married, was swept Into the sea and drowned. His companion, a boy, managed to escape by' climbing on to the rocks. The point at which the accident occurred is passable only at low tide. Perrett had been carting metal from the place with three horses. He was about to drive put with the last load when a heavy sea swept up the beach toward the cliff under which he was working, overturned the dray, and swept it out to sea. Perrett was drowned, as also were the three horses. The body has been recovered. DROWNED IN RIVER COAL CARTER’S DEATH (Per United Press Association) HOKITIKA, Aug. 27. James Thomas Victor Cooper, a son of Joseph Cooper, aged 19 years, after delivering a. load of coal across the river, attempted to cross the main stream of the Hokitika River instead of going round by the road and the bridge. He found the water too deep and attempted to turn back, but his dray capsized, and Cooper was thrown out and drowned. The horse was also drowned in 20 feet of water. The body has not been recovered. A FIFTY-FOOT DROP FALL FROM, RAILWAY BRIDGE While walking with a companion along the railway line near the Chain Hill tunnel on the south railway line last evening, Norman Savidge, a married man residing at 18 Marquis street, North-East Valley, fell some 50. or 60 feet on to the road from an overhead bridge, being admitted to Hospital at 9.30 suffering from concussion, shock and other injuries, the extent of which will not be properly ascertainable until this morning. \ FARMER FOUND DEAD Thomas Quinn, aged 63, a well-known farmer of Studholme Junction, was found dead about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday in a shed on his farm at Willowbridge. He had apparently been dead some hours before being discovered by his son, Thomas Patrick Quinn. An inquest was opened yesterday before the district coroner (Mr d’A. S. Grut). Thomas Patrick Quinn, a son of the deceased, gave evidence of identification. He had last seen his father alive at 7.30 a.m. on Saturday, when he was leaving his home at Studholme for his farm at Willowbridge to drive a team. He was then in good health. When his father did not return home, witness left at 7 p.m. to look for him. It was dark when he arrived at the farm. He went to the part where he knew his father was working and found that he had done only 10 yards. Witness could hear the unyoked horses moving about in the field. He then looked for his father in the sheds on the farm and found him dead on the floor of a brick chaff house. He immediately got into touch with Dr Pitts. His father had not made any complaint about his health recently. The inquest was adjourned sine die. A DISLOCATED ELBOW John Paget, a small boy residing at 67 Loyalty street, dislocated his elbow when he fell from a fence at his home on Saturday afternoon. He was admitted to Hospital. FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT A fractured wrist and injuries to her back were received by _ Marjory Heaney, an employee at the City Hotel, when she fell through a skylight yesterday morning. She was admitted to Hospital at 7.5.