ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
. [Per Pbess Association.'] WELLINGTON, May 12. Alexander Lindop, aged 19, son of a Carterton chemist, was out exercising on a bicycle, and whilst "scorching" ran head first into the wheel of a trap. He smashed his skull in, and was picked up unconscious. He is still lingering, but is unconscious. Yesterday afternoon Mr W. Grant, of Swannanoa, had his spring-trap smashed at Mr A. P. Tutton's auction yard at Rangiora. Ho removed the blinkers from his horse to allow it to feed, bxit it bolted, and ran the trap over some ploughs and other implements before it was secured. The horse was cut about a good deal. About six o'clock yesterday evening a ' horse and trap belonging to Dr Clayton were standing in High Street, the driver sitting in the trap and holding- tho reins. When the tram passed, tho horse became alarmed and backed tho cart into it, the result being that one wheel was broken and the axle bent. The whole affair was a pure accident, and neither the driver of the trap nor the guard of tho tram was to blame.
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 5871, 13 May 1897, Page 1
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