CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18636, 4 August 1930, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

WOMAN CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, August 3. Elizabeth Irvine (24) was killed on Riccarton Road at 6.30 on Saturday evening by being knocked down by a passing motor-car. Miss Irvine was riding a bicycle opposite St. James’s Church, Lower Riccarton, when a car coming from behind her struck her, and she died almost immediately. The driver of the car was Mr E. C. Mann, farmer, of Templeton. CYCLIST KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, August 3. Harold Greytown Rush, married, with four children, was killed on Saturday evening, when a bicycle he was riding collided with a service car driven by Cyril Augustus McAllister. Later McAllister was arrested on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. A BROKEN JAW. By Telegraph—Pres* Association DUNEDIN, August 3. Balfour Ferguson (22), single, residing at Highgate, when playing for Pirates against Kaikorai, at Bishopcourt, fractured his jaw and received head injuries which necessitated his removal to hospital. FATAL MOTOR CRASH. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, August 3. At ten o’clock last night a motorcar driven by Robert John Burling, of Taumarunui, crashed into a telegraph pole just after crossing the Takanini bridge on the Great South Road. The body of the car was partially wrecked. A passenger, Charles Simons, aged about 35, believed to be single, a jeweller of Taumarunui, died from injuries a few minutes after the smash. The driver escaped with minor cuts. CAR NEARLY IN RIVER. By Telegraph—Press Association GREYMOUTH, August 3. A milk van belonging to Gage’s, North Beach daily was turning a corner into Tainui Street this morning, when the steering gear failed, and the vehicle ran upon the footpath, smashing the post of a shop verandah and going through an adjacent fence. Fortunately it liung half-way through the fence with two wheels in the air, there being a drop of ten feet or more inside the fence. Two occupants escaped scathless.