ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR (United Press Association) DANNEVIRKE, April 21. The infant son of Mr M. R. Booth, curator to the Dannevirke Borough Council, was struck by a car driven by Hector Lewis Morrison, a drover of Dannevirke, in High street yesterday afternoon and killed instantly. The child, who was aged three and a half years, was running diagonally across the street, apparently for the purpose of greeting his father, when he was hit by the buffer of the car and thrown. SHUNTER KILLED (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. Thomas H. Lightfoot, a middle-aged shunter, employed in the Christchurch railway goods yards, was killed at 6.30 p.m. today when he was run over by a rake of trucks and a C class engine in the yards. He died before he could be extricated from beneath the tender of the engine, which had to be jacked up to remove the body. Lightfoot _ was working on a rake of trucks moving in the opposite direction, when he stepped off and was apparently caught by the foremost truck of the rake which the engine was pushing on the next track.