FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10281, 7 January 1922, Page 2

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

A distressing accident whereby a little boy named Norman Reid Kingston, aged 20 months, the son of Mr and Mrs Stanley Kingston, near Mothven on Thursday evening. Mr and Mj-s Kingston and the child had been to Methven, Mr Kingston being on a motor bicycle, and hi;; wife and child in a side chair, and were returning to Ashburton when the accident happened. Mr and Mrs Acheley, of Dunedin (brother and sister-in-law of Mr and Mrs Kingston) were following them in a motor car, and found,, them lying on the road, Mr and Mrs Kingston being insensible and the child quite dead. Mr Kingston was taken to the hospital where some stitches were put in (ho wounds in his face—which was badly cut—and both he and his wife are suffering acutely from shock. They are progressing favourably, hut Mr Kingston, it may ho mentioned, is a returned soldier, and was suffering severely from shock when he came home. The accident was caused by the 'breaking of the forks of the motor bicycle, and this brought about the capsize of the side chair in which Mrs Kingston was sitting witli the little boy on her knee At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned and the funeral will take place to-day. Immediately after receipt of the. news yesterday morning, Mr mih Mrs W. T. Kingston, the parents of‘Mr Stanley Kingston, left in a motor car for Methven. Much sympathy is felt for (he parents and grand-parents and other relatives In the sad loss they have sustained.