ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16360, 24 February 1921, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DEATH AT lIALSWELL. Evelyn Charlotte Mercer, an elderly widow, residing at 51, Lincoln Road, waa found dead in bed at 6 a.m. to-day. She was in her usual health at nine o’clock last night, when her daughter gave her a cup of tea. An inquest will be held to-day. MOTOR-CYCLE COLLIDES WITH TRAIN. A young man, Frederick Mehrtens, riding a motor-cycle, collided, last evening, with the Christchurch-Wai-kari passenger train at the High Street crossing, Rangiora. He was travelling at a fair pace and did not observe the crossing-keeper nor see the train approaching until he was about twenty jards from the crossing. Ho applied his brake and swerved his machine, but one of the carriages struck the back wheel of the cycle and overturned it. Mehrtens escaped with a few cuts and bruises, but the machine, a nearlv new one, was considerably damaged. INQUEST. CP®*- P**s« Association.) DUNEDIN, February 24. The inquest was concluded to-day on Marshall Hugh Browne, commercial traveller, Christchurch, who died in the hospital as a result of being knoeked down by a motor-car on February 10. A verdict of accidental death waa returned, and the Coroner exonerated the driver of the car from blame. He also drew the attention of the oity coporation to the position of the t*r*m stopping place near which the accident happened.