ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ANOTHER MOTOR FATALITY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 8. A man, F. D. Phipson, residing at Molesworth Street, was admitted to hospital at 10.15 o’clock last night seriously injured as the result of being .knocked down by a motor car. At 12.40 o’clock he succumbed without regaining consciousness. No particulars are available as to how the accident occurred. NO FURTHER PARTICULARS. <By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, Mar. 8. No particulars are available, with regard to the death of Mr Percy B. tPhipson, further than that he was .run over by a car being driven by Mr <G. Mitchell in Ballance Street, at about 10 o’clock last evening. The might was dark and rainy, and Mitchell says he only felt a bump as the car passed over the man’s body. tMr P. B. Phipson was known as an ardent philatelist, and was secretary of the New Zealand Philatelic Society : for many years.] TUNNEL WORKER INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Presa Association.) TAUMARUNUI, March 8. A serious accident occurred in the Mangapara tunnel on the Stratford main trunk line at six o clock this morning. A fall of papa occurred in the face of the tmnnel where Charles McIntosh was working with the result, that he was seriously injured, his skull being fractured and one rib broken. The injured man was sent to the Taumarunui hospital. His relatives are believed to reside at Parnell. •*'