ACCIDENT AT TARIKI

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1927, Page 9

ACCIDENT AT TARIKI

SMALL BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED. How careful children should be in playing on the main highways in these days of rapid motor traffic was shown yesterday afternoon when a serious accident befel a lad on the main road near Rugby Road. A party of four boys returning from school were on the roadside when one of them snatched the cap from another and threw it in front of a motor lorry going in the direction of New Plymouth. The lad, intent on regaining his cap, made a dive on to the road, but unfortunately he failed to see a taxi car coming from the opposite direction and can right into the back mudguard. The boy, who was about nine years of age, and a son of Mr. R. W. Davis, of Rugby Road, was at once picked up and conveyed to the Stratford Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained a fracture of both jaws, facial cuts and other injuries, and on enquiry late last night he was reported to be in a critical condition. The driver of the car had slowed down to pass the lorry, though the roadway was fairly wide at the point, and did not know of the occurrence until his passengers at the back informed him, so sudden and unexpectedly did it happen.