HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 8

HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS

ONE KILLED; SIX INJURED TRUCK AND CAR COLLIDE ; [ Per Press Association. ] | CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 26. [ One person was killed and six in- i jured in a serious collision a few mil£s I from Methven on Friday afternoon, when a Power Board truck struck a I motor-car at an obscured intersection. . The occupants of the vehicles were 1 i Killed | Patrick Lane Clinton, aged 31, farmer, Barrhill, fractured skull and multiple injuries. Injured James Clinton, aged 68, broken pel- ; vis, severe lacerations; condition serious. Rose Clinton, aged 71, fractured back, concussion; condition serious. Peggy Webb, aged 17, servant at Mr Clinton’s farm, whose parents reside at Temuka, severely fractured skull; condition serious. Herbert Christie, electrician's apprentice, scalp wounds; condition satisfactory. George Chapman, electrician, driver of the truck, scalp wounds; discharged from hospital after treatment. Mrs Chapman was a passenger in the truck but escaped with abrasions and severe shock. Patrick Clinton, who was driving his parents and the girl to town for Christmas Eve, died soon after admission to the hospital. The car was turned over several times and stopped upside down.

YOUTH DIES GF INJURIES ACCIDENT NEAR NORSEWOOD. MOTOR-CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE [ Per Press Association.! DANNEVIRKE, Dec. 26. Edwin Henry Benbow, 18, son of Mr. 11. R. Benbow, farmer, Ormondville, received fatal injuries about 5.20 p.m. on Christmas Eve, when a motorcycle h«? was riding collided with a car driven by Charles Munro Edwards, of Napier, on a bend in the road three miles south of Norsewood. Benbow, who was on his way home for Christmas, received injuries to his head and right leg. and died in the Dannevirke Public Hospital at 9 a.m., shortly after his parents had arrived at the institution. INJURES TO HEAD MAN FOUND IN SEMICONSCIOUS CONDITION I- O LIC E IN V ESTI G ATION S FOLLOW [ Per Press A.s.ociation. 1 AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. Suffering from a severely lacerated head and depressed fracture of the skull, allegedly caused by blows with an axe, Kurt Petersen was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Christmas Eve. The police took possession of an axe found in his house.

The injured man was discovered in a semi-conscious condition in the front of the next-door residence, holding his hands to his head, which was streaming with blood, and calling for assistance.

The police immediately conducted investigations resulting in the arrest of a woman occupant of ihe house.

INJURED MAN DIES BELIEVED TO HAI E BEEN RUN OVER ( I‘er Press Association. J DUNEDIN, Dec. 26. James Cathirin McKenzie, single, aged 27, who Jives in Macandrew Road, was found propped against a building at the corner of Vogel and Gordon Streets at 1 a.m. on Saturday, and died in hospital at 4.40. He was picked up in the middle of the road by two young men who removed him to the footpath, believing him to be intoxicated. An inquest was opened and a postmortem examination ordered. This revealed that lhe deceased had several ribs broken and a slight rupture of the heart, the nature of the injuries being consistent with his having been run over by a car.

MOTOR-CYCLES COLLIDE YOUNG MAN SUCCUMBS I Per Pre's Asso’l.”.tiun. ) DUNEDIN, Dec. 26. At 1.30 on Christmas morning, Arnold Dickson Sparks, single, 22 year-, of ago, riding a motor-cycle, camo into collision with a motor-cycle driven by Thomas Crisp, at the intersection of Thames and Usk Streets, Oamaru, receiving head injuries to which he succumbed after removal to the Oamaru Hospital. (Further Accidents on page 9).