ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 14

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTORIST KILLED LEVEL CROSSING COLLISION (Per Press Association.) TNVFiROARGILL, last night. About 6.50 p.m. on Tuesday, Alexander Robert Nieol, chiropractor, of Invercargill, accompanied by his wife, was driving a car along "West Plains road towards Invercargill, when at the railway crossing at West Plains he came into collision with the Kingston train, resulting in the car being thrown on to a cattle stop, a distance of 15ft. Nicol, who received very serious injuries about the head, was unconscious when picked up by the tram-driver, who brought both Nicol and his wife to town. Nicol, however, succumbed about 10.50 pin, without regaining consciousness Mrs Nicol, although slightly injured and suffering from shock, was able to proceed to her home,

OLD MAN'S SUICIDE FOUND WITH THEOAT CUT » Per Press Association.) CHRISTOHITRCH, last night, "Richard Pascoe. 78, was found dead in a plantation at Lytteltoii last evening, with his throat cut. At the. inquest todav Charles Albert. Pascoe, a son of the deceased, said his lather had been worried and depressed recently concerning his health, but had given no indication that he might take his own life, lhe coroner found that Pascoe committed suicide while in a depressed state ot mind. WOMAN'S SUICIDE SEQUEL TO ILL HEALTH (Per Press Association.) DUNKDJN, last night,

Mrs. Sarah Noble Munro, 47, was found dead at her residence on'Tuesday as the result of gas poisoning. Evidence at the inquest showed that the woman was suffering (rata ill-health and worry. A verdict of suicide while m a strained State of mind was returned. CARRIER INJURED COLLISION WITH MOTOR CAR (p er press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night, James Thomson, a carrier, of Balclntha, sustained a severe cut on the head and had a small bone in the back of his neck broken in a collision with a motor car on Tuesday evening. He was standing in a spring wagon when it was crashed into by a car, Thomson being piecipitated on to the roadway. A PICNIC TRAGEDY BOY'S FATAL FALL FROM TRAIN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Morris Howell, travelling with a party of bovs being conducted by the Key. Fieldeiv Tavlor on a picnic excursion, tell out of a. carriage near Paekakar.k, and sustained injuries which resulted in ins death half an hour afterwards. M.P. INJURED TALL FROM SMALL VESSEL (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Mr H. R Jenkins, MP., had an unfortunate accident yesterday. He had jumped from the jetty to the deck of a small fishing boat on returning to his yacht as a low tide would not allow the dinghy to gel alongside the jetty. He slipped on the deck, fell into the water, and was rendered almost unconscious. Two members of his party swam to his assistance and he was hoisted to tile jetty with difficulty. He was removed to hospital and did not recover conscious!ness until artificial respiration bad been used for over half an hour.

MOTOR CARS COLLIDE A DOUBLE SOMERSAULT (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., last night. Somersaulting twice a light two-seater car landed on its wheels on a footpath after being struck by a heavy car at the corner of Fitzherbert and College streets Palmerstou North. Mr. IT. Doyle, of Feilding, was the driver of the heavy car, and D. Smith, of Napier, drove the light car. The occupants were uninjured, but the light car was practically wrecked. CYCLIST KILLED i ' RODE INTO MOTOR CAR (Per Press Association.l AUCKLAND, last night. A telegraph messenger, Harry Vercoe, 16, whilst riding a cycle at Helensville on Tuesday, rode into a parked car and sustained injuries from which he died in a few hours.