Accidents and Fatalities

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 31 August 1923, Page 7

Accidents and Fatalities

DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE. Per Press Association. Christchurch, August 30. ( William Pullen, a retired railway employee, after buying railway tickets for himself and hi s daugther to Rakaia, joined hig. daughter in the carriage remarking "I am puffed." Ho immediately leaned back on the seat and expired. Pullen wag a widower and had been under treatment for heart disease.

HUTT ROAD ACCIDENT. Wellington, August 30. At the inque t on Robert J. Turnbull, who wa s killed in a motor accident on the Hutt Road, the Coroner's finding was: "The first question I have to decide is that of the sobriety of Mr Adams. Two witnesses have asserted that he was under the influence of liquor, but I find, and am satisfied, that such was not the case. I consider it proven that Mr Adams was perfectly sober. There is nothing to be gained by going over the evidence, so I find that tho deceased, Robert Thorburn Turnbull, died on July 12, 1923, on the Hutt Road, the cause of his death being a fractured skull resulting from a motor-car ho was inwhicli was being driven by Alfred Montagu Adams, colliding with a stationary motor-lorry on that day. The collision occurred through Adam s dimming his own lights when meeting a motor-car with dazzling headlights, and thus failing to see the lorry. "I BUggest that local authorities take into serious con ideration tho disability of passing a bylaw compelling motor-lorries to carry a bright roar light at tho end of the vehicle, and not! underneath it, as is now the case." ,

MOTOR ACCIDENT. TWO PERSONS INJURED. Dunodin, August 30. A man named Thomas Deeham and a woman named Mr s Jessio Blues wore knocked down by a motor car this evening driven by John Adam-

son. Botli wore removed to hospital. Mrs Blues is suffering from injuries to the head and face and the man had his left arm badly fractured and sustained injury to his shoulder.