ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16656, 28 November 1925, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN LOSES. ONE EYE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Nov. 28. Yesterday afternoon John Hollows, a taxi driver, while alone in a new car, •ran over an embankment near Abbotsford station, and was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition. The car turned three somersaults, .and landed on the railway track. At Milton on Tuesday a motor car ,collided with an electric light pole, and .crashed through a fence. Mr. Gilbert Burnett, a resident of Mount Stuart, lost one eye, and sustained other injuries, and Mr. Leonard Watson, of Dunedin, suffered general shock. OVER A BANK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HIKURANGI, Nev. 28. William Renner, cream contractor to the Hikurangi Dairy Factory, ran over a sixty-foot bank on the Helena Bay Road with a truck laden with cream. The engine stalled on the hill, and Mr. Renner got 'out to crank up. The tbrakes failed, and Mr. Renner jumped -.back on to the truck, but he was too late to avoid the mishap. Mr. Renner was taken to the Whangarei Hospital. He is in a serious condition. BETWEEN BOAT AND WHARF. (Bv Telegraph.—Fress Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. Miss May Sheehan, a school teacher, -while trying to jump aboard a ferry steamer leaving Birkenhead Wharf, • fell, and was jammed between the boat, .and the wharf. She was hauled aboard .and removed to the hospital. It is thought she has., sustained injuries to the pelvis bone. " RUN OVER BY DRAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TE AROHA, Nov. 28. - A painful accident happened to the three-year-okl child of Mr. Fred Miles, Qiail contractor at Waihou. After loading gravel into a dray at the sand pit adjoining his place, Mr. Miles placed his little child in the dray and went to the horse’s head to lead it out from the pit, when he heard a scream. The child by some means fell off the dray, and the wheel passed 1 over the left shoulder, which was badly crushed, three ribs being •broken, one penetrating the lung. The .child also received a blow on the head, .which rendered it unconscious. Medical aid was summoned. The child is at present in a precarious condition.