PEDESTRIANS KILLED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 6

PEDESTRIANS KILLED

TRAMWAY ACCIDENTS THREE ELDERLY VICTIMS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 1. Three elderly people lost their lives in a series of tramway accidents in the past two days. All the victims were pedestrians. A man was killed in Queen street and a woman received fatal injuries in Remuera road on Monday afternoon after being struck by a tramcar. The third fatal tramway accident occurred this morning when a man was knocked down in Great South road. While crossing Queen street at the corner of Fort street on Monday afternoon John Miltiades Hennessey, otherwise known as John Sharon and John Shannon, aged 60, a pensioner, was run over by a Ponsonby. bound tram. He died instantly from multiple injuries. T Also on Monday afternoon, Miss Isabella Jane Hall, aged 75, of Remuera, was crossing Remuera road when she was struck by a city bound tramcar. She was taken to the Auckland Hospital, suffering from head injuries and she died about two hours later. The third fatality occurred when Frederick William Highfield, aged 86, a retired carpenter, of Green Lane, was struck by a tramcar in Great South road this morning. Highfield was wheeling a bicycle across the road when the tramcar, which was travelling towards the city, knocked him down. He received a fractured skull and other injuries and died in the Auckland Hospital five minutes after arriving there.