FOUR MEN BADLY INJURED

Southland Times, Issue 23947, 13 October 1939, Page 6

FOUR MEN BADLY INJURED

CAR CAPSIZES NEAR NAPIER THREE POLICE CONSTABLES IN VEHICLE (United Press Association) HASTINGS, October 12. Four men, including three police constables, were badly injured when a car in which six persons were travelling from Napier to Hastings left the highway near Cooper’s crossing, Napier, at 7.20 tonight. The car plunged down a slight bank and capsized across the railway tracks. Three of the injured men are well known members of the Hastings police force. The injured were;

Richard Byrne, police constable, married, aged about 26; serious injury to spine and severe shock. Edward Douglas, injuries to back and severe shock.

Patrick Joseph O’Connor, police constable, married, aged 28; fractured left leg and shock. t R. G. Allan, police constable, aged 41, married; injury to left hand, abrasions about the body and severe shock; condition satisfactory. The two other occupants of the car, a well-known footballer, Laurie Clothier, married, aged about 27, freezing works foreman, of Napier, and another unidentified person, escaped with bruises and slight shock. The car was a tangled mass of wreckage. •" The cause of the accident is not known. Heavy rain was falling at the time and visibility was bad. The car, a modern six-seater saloon, appeared to have skidded across to the incorrect side of the road, where it mounted a slight rise and plunged down a fivefoot, shelving bank. The vehicle ripped down about 20 yards of fencing and came to rest on its side across the railway lines. An early arrival on the scene summoned an ambulance and the police and the injured men were removed to the Napier public hospital. A full examination could not be made because of the severe shock from which they were suffering. The wrecked car delayed an inward bound goods train for half an hour. FARMER DIES FROM INJURIES (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 12. John Douglas McQueen, aged 30, a married man, employed as a farm manager, who was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Tuesday with severe head injuries, died this afternoon. McQueen, whose home is at Holmes Bay, Banks Peninsula, was found lying on the road and it appeared that he had either been thrown or fallen from his horse. A post mortem has been ordered. PEDESTRIAN INJURED IN FALL

(United Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 12.

, The chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr Allan J. Moody, after stepping off a tram at Queen street at 8.30 this morning slipped and fell heavily on his back. He reached his office 100 yards away and a doctor was sent for. Mr Moody was ordered to hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed a serious injury to the spine. MAN KILLED BY TRAIN (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 12. A man was killed when run over by a train near the Christchurch Railway Station about 4.15 p.m. today. He was Arthur Leshke, a single man, aged 48, residing at 68 Kingsley street, Sydenham. Leshke, who was a pottery worker by trade, was a returned soldier. It is believed that he was trying to board a moving train and fell.