FATAL INJURIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18502, 14 September 1934, Page 4

FATAL INJURIES

CHILD KNOCKED DOWN ACCIDENT AT MANUTUKE A Maori boy, Claude Dennis, 9, son of Mr and Mrs Tom Dennis, of Manutukc, was knocked down by a light lorry on the main road at Manutuke early this morning, and later succumbed to his injuries in the Cook Hospital. The accident occurred at about 8.15 a.in., when the boy Dennis and several companions were on • their way to school. As a bus was proceeding towards Muriwai .about 400yds. .beyond the Manutuke Post Office, it. met a party of children on the road. Two of these children crossed over to the other side of the road, and the others waited until the bus had passed. Just at that, moment, however, the light lorry was approaching from the opposite direction. Apparently the children who lmd remained on the same side of the road as that on which the lorry was travelling did not hear its approach, lot’ just after the hits had passed the liov Dennis dashed out to cr.oss the road.

The lad ran right in front of the lorry, and was knocked down. The wheels of the, lorry passed over the bov before it. was brought to a standstill, and the boy suffered injuries to his head.

The driver of the van and his, two companions picked tlie boy up from the road and did what they could for him before the arrival of a doctor, who or deral his removal to the Cook Hospital. There the child died at about 11.30 a.in. The lorry involved in the accident was returning to To Araroa from Nuhakn, and was driven by a man named Bristow!*.