A TRAGIC DEATH.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17973, 23 August 1930, Page 5

A TRAGIC DEATH.

FATHER LOSES SECOND SON. Result of Motor Collision. DECEASED'S EVENTFUL LIFE. SPENT TWO YEARS IN HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 23.

As the result of a collision between a motor lorry and a bicycle at the intersection of Hanson and Hall Streets, Wellington South, at about five o'clock last night, George Allan Turnbull, aged .17 years, a telegraph messengei', was so severely injured that he died while being taken to the public hospital. He was a son of Mr John James Turnbull, of Farnham Street, Morning ton.

Some eight years ago Mr Turnbull lost another son in rather tragic circumstances. In company with a man named Thomas, Phillip Henry Turnbull, aged 23 years, was engaged in excavating a building section in Balfour Eoad, Mornington, when the bank began to move and he was killed by a fall of earth. Mr Thomas and two children were caught by the falling earth, but were practically uninjured. George Turnbull, who was killed last night, narrowly escaped being killed about six years ago, when he was knocked down by a motor-car in Newtown, receiving severe internal injuries. For about two years he was in hospital, and had not long recovered.