LITTLE GIRL KILLED

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 5

LITTLE GIRL KILLED

CARS COLLIDE AT CORNER

(By Telegraph. Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Friday. Flung from her mother's arms when the car in whicii they were travelling collided with another at an interesection at Woodlands,, about 12 miles north from Invercargiil, this morning, a child aged tour years, Lorna Mcistyre, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. E. Mclntyre, of Longbush, struck the side of the roadway on her head and received injuries from which she died in hospital two hours later.

The child's mother was also admit, ted to hospital sucering from injuries to the left thigh and abrasions to the head.

Mr Mclntyre was driving a light sedan car and his wife and child were passengers in the front seat, the child sitting on her mother's knee. At the intersection a collision occurred with a five-seater touring car, driven by a man also with his wife and one child. The child, Lorna Mclntyre, was thrown from the car to the left side of the road, and when picked up was found to be suffering from a cut on the left side of the head, having been thrown right out of her mother's arms. A doctor was summoned and, after they had received attention, the mother and child were taken to hospital in Invercargill. Both cars were damaged. It is stated that the intersection has been the scene of four previous accidents recently.