TWO MOTOR FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 11

TWO MOTOR FATALITIES

CHILD KNOCKED OVER BY VAN

'.CYCLIST FRACTURES HIS SKULL.

AUCKLAND CITY ACCIDENT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. : ■, Auckland, Last Night. Fatal injuries were received by’ Robert Johnston, aged nine, .whose parents reside at Point Chevalier, when he was knocked down by a motor van in Point Chevalier Road this morning. The boy, who Suffered concussion .arid a fraeture of a leg,, was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where* he died in the afternoon. - The accident happened at a sharp bend in . the road. The boy, according to. an eye-witness, was bowling a hoop across the road when he was struck by ' the,vehicle. ' y. A. motor-cyclist, Alfred Harriman, • aged 25, of Te Papapa, received fatal injuries when he was thrown froth his machine at Grey Lynn shortly before midday. He received a fracture of the skull and died a few hours later. The motor-cycle was only slightly damaged.