CRASH INTO STREET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25458, 12 February 1944, Page 6

CRASH INTO STREET

FALL FROM ROOF PARAPET WOMAN KILLED INSTANTLY (PA.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 11. Crashing from the parapet of the roof garden on top of the fifth storey of the building of Messrs John Court. Ltd., into Queen street, a woman, aged about 35, was killed instantly this afternoon. She had not been identified late to-night. Clearing the veranda of the shop, which protrudes about 12 feet, the woman fell in the roadway between the tramway safety zone and the footpath, outside the lower entrance of John Court’s premisly. She narrowly missed striking passengers alighting at the zone from a tramcar. She suffered a fractured neck, a broken leg. and other injuries.

Witnesses in the crowded street said they saw the woman climb on to the parapet of the roof garden and stand there for a few seconds grasping the wooden support and facing Queen street. Then, without further warning, she crashed into the street. In the course of her fall the woman struck and broke-the supporting wire between the tramway overhead wires and the building. The tram traffic was not delayed, however, as an official directed the trams past the broken wire.