ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOUND DEAD ON ROAD. By Telegraph—-Press Association. Dunedin, Sept. 26. The police are advised that Alexander Brown, aged 69, a road contractor employed near Milton, was found dead on the roadside with a severe wound on the right side and a broken nose. Deceased, who was working alone at a quarry, evidently fell on a crowbar, as one was found there bloodstained. He then crawled over a mile towards assistance before collapsing. MOTOR CAR FATALITY. Palmerston N., Sept. 26. An inquest was held this morning concerning the death of Mrs. Rosina Sophia Lucas, wife of a farmer of Pohangina, who was killed through a car falling down a bank on Stanton’s Hill, Pohangina. The car was owned and driven by Mrs. Wills, deceased being a passenger. Rounding a bend on the hill the wheels skidded on the loose metal and went over the bank. Deceased was pinned underneath and killed. Mrs. Wills was severely injured but made her way to a near-by settler. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased was accidently killed through a motor-car capsizing over a bank at Stanton’s Hill.