FATAL COLLISION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 7

FATAL COLLISION.

SHAFT OF GIG STRIKES CAR PASSENGER. Miss Julia Carboy, a member of a \ well-known Loburn family, died at . the Brooklehurst Hospital. Rangiora, j at 4 p.m. yesterday, from injuries re- j neivecl on Saturday evening in a collision between a ’motor-car and a j horse and gig. 'Die deceased, who was j forty-nine years of age, was housekeeper for her brothers, Messrs John I and William Carboy. On Saturdav evening, between seven j and eight Miss Carboy loft ! homo with Per ? ’'-'then- John in a motor-car intending spend the evening with some friends in another : part of the district. On their •’ u* 7 ] they picked up two friends, Mrs Hilda Cox and Mr John Kelleher. i Both lights 6n the car were bright, ! but the evening being foggy, Mr Carboy was driving slowly. When turning the corner from the [ roam Loburn Road into what is known i as the School Road, a horse and gig, [ coming from the opposite direction, ! collided with the car side on. The two ladies occuoied*the hack seat A shaft of the gig struck Miss Carbov on her left side, severely injuring her internally. None of the other occupants of the oar were hurt, and the driver of the gig. a. young man named Liouis Rain, escaped injury, as also did a companion named John M’Knv. who \vVn Wlt T -S im ! n thc S'K- Hr T. A. ■ °, f Rangiora, was summoned, and ordered the injured woman to be taken to Brooklehurst Hospital, where her death took place yesterday. - r Wilson. Coroner, opened an inquest- this morning. l» r T. A ‘"'ills, of Rangiorn. .stated that, at about 8.5 p.m. on Saturday evernng he received an urgent tele, phone message to go to Ken node's Corner, South Loburn, to a motor aeci dent. On arriving there be found Miss Carboy sitting in the back of the car collapsed and apparently in great pain. I Me bad her removed to Brooklehurst private hospital at once, and on further examination there with Dr King. | be found a largo bruise on the left side i of the abdomen. The patient was bare, j

ly conscious anti evidently very badly shocked. The usual remedies were applied, and the patient appeared much improved the next morning. She was seen at about 1.30 p.m. on Sunday bv Dr Adand in consultation with himself and Ur King, and they found no justification for an operation. She would at. any time have Keen a bad subject tor an operation. At the time she 'ap,reared to have gained a good deal of ground. although still in a very serious condition. About 8.45 p.m. lie received an urgent call to go to her, and found when he arrived at the hospital that- . she was dead. Hr King, in the pro- - sellce of himself ar.d Dr Allen, made a ' post-mortem examination and found « extensive internal injuries. These in j juries might have been caused by the l violent impact of a blunt- object such as c the shaft of a gig. The cause of death was haemorrhage and shock, and no i operative procedure could have saved 1 life. f John Carboy, farmer. Loburn, stated c that Miss Carboy was his sister. She f was a single woman, aged, forty-nine j e years, and lived with him and his bro- a ther at Loburn. f, At this stage the inquest was ad- a journed until October 15. e