ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 17 September 1906, Page 5

ACC IDENTS AND FATALITIES.

- Pec Press (Association. , Waipawa. Sept. 15. » A verdict of accidental death was returned at -the inquest K?n Franklin Perini, killed "while shutting at.Pukihou on the 4th instr y - a 'rider .being added that the Railway Department be reconummdod th&t no men be sent as assistants on night trams, -and entrusted wifch lamps unless they have pro veil efficient in' signalling.' - 'Auckland, 'Sept. 16. A trsftn 'accident occurred at Epsom on. Saturday afternoon, -after the Piakuranga Hunt Club" races. Tt appears that a car was at a standstill when another came from, -behind and dasfcei into it. ' An elderly m>an, -who was* sitting on n sandbox in the- stationary oar, wni ihvovn to thV -ground, but save fpr a light scalp wound was not toth^wfefe - injured. v ' The pne* iws in both cars \v«?ro- ' -consiiiUscpbly F V k f^» ard tlfc '.apron and" platform of the rmr ear was nruch-damased.