ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

AIOTOR-’BUS COLLISION. PASSENGER. INJURED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A motor-’bus, fully laden with passengers, collided with a large butcher’s van at the corner of Khvber Pass this morning. The driver of tho van swerved his machine, which mounted the footpath and fell some feet into the debris on a vacant section. Aliss Tairas, a passenger in the ’bus, received slight cuts from the broken windscreen of the ’bus, and was conveyed to her home suffering mostly from shock.

HUMAN SKULL FOUND,

POLICE INVESTIGATING

AUCKLAND, last night.

A human skull in a fairly good state of preservation was found on a property owned by E. Cullen. Waikowhai. Two boys were searching for bottles in the bush near the tea kiosk, when they came across some bones. They found the skull of a human being. The lower jawbone could not be found, but in the remains of the upper jaw there were several teeth which had been stopped. A gold filling was found in one of the teeth. Ine Alount Albert police are making inquiries.

A SETTLER’S DEATH

EXCITEMENT AFFECTS HEART.

(Per Press Association.) I’AHIATUA, this day

At the adjourned inquest into the death of Fred Hillas, a settler of Pori, who died suddenly at Ngaturi on his way into Pahiatua, the coroner said it was very plain that the cause of death, on the doctor’s evidence was a ruptured heart, the attack being brought about, by excitement, due to an accident on Ngaturi hill.

NO NEGLIGENCE.

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.

At the inquest on John Marijan Milieieh. who died as a result of injuries sustained through being run over bv a motor ear on Friday evening. John Allan, the driver of the car, stated that he was travelling on the proper side of the road, at a speed of twelve miles an hour, when a man suddenly ran off’ the kerb in front of the car. Witness sounded his horn, but the man appeared to stumble and fell face downwards almost in front of the ear. The brakes were applied, but a bump followed immediately, the right wheels evidently going over the man’s body. If the man had not hesitated, but kept running straight on. lie would have been all right.

An employee of the deceased stated that Milieieh was slightly deaf. He was probably running across the street to get cigarettes. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. There was not, the slightest suggestion of negligence on the part of the ear driver, who exercised the utmost care.