STRUCK BY CAR

Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 5

STRUCK BY CAR

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL FAVOURABLE PROGRESS REPORTED ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.in.) Nev/ York, December 14. The latest bulletin issued by physicians at Lenox Hill Hospital following an X-ray examination stated: “Mr Winston Churchill is progressing favourably. His temperature is 100.6 and his pulse and respiration are satisfactory. There is uncomplicated pleurisy produced by a blow to the. right chest. A good night is expected." The doctors stated that there was no danger of pleural haemorrhage which had been feared, but they indicated that besides general shock and a shaking up, Mr Churchill suffered a sprained shoulder and a painfully lacerated nose and forehead. Mr Churchill was here to give a series of lectures on the “Destiny of the Englishspeaking people.” He attempted to cross Fifth Avenue after alighting from a taxicab when a second taxi struck him knocking him to the pavement. The driver of the second car took him to hospital immediately.

Mr Churchill took pains to effect the driver’s release from charges on the ground that the driver would have been unable to avoid hitting him since he tried to cross the street against the traffic lights. He also expressed much concern about exaggerated accounts causing “undue alarm to my friends in England.”