ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 13

ACCIDENTS.

MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNED. YOUNG MAN KILLED. (SPECIAIi TO TBB PBE8B.) CHEVIOT, March 2. i A fatal accident .occurred at Gore Bay, Cheviot, on Sunday afternoon, when a young man, Leonard Clarke, was killed as a result of\ the car he was driving turning over and pinning him underneath. The accident was apparently caused* by a tyre blowing out. A passenger in the car was unhurt. Every effort was made to extricate Mr Clarke, but by the time help had been obtained to lift the car off him he had* expired.

An inquest was held by Mr. G. Struthers, acting-Coroner, who returned a verdict of accidental death. Mr Clarke was only 18 years of age. He was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs S. A. Clarke, of Cheviot, and was very popular in the district,

MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED AT HASTINGS. I ' (PBISJ ISSOCUTIO* TXMEOBAU.) i j HASTINGS, March 2. i - A man named Trotter suffered a crushed chest, and Mb condition late to-night was serious. ■ ' When working on the demolition of I a wrecked building in Hastings to-day, I Trotter and another man were standing | on the top of a brick "wall, after unI bolting a steel rafter, when the wall I collapsed. The other man jumped to | the roof of the adjoining building, but | Trotter jumped to the ground and the I wall fell on him.

MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED. ■ I (r»ass 4SBOCUTIOI riuroaui./ HAWERA, March 2. As the result of a collision with a service oar on the Main South road on Sunday night, a motor-cyclist, Frank Beaurepaire, residing at Hawera, suffered bodily injuries. He was taken to hospital, and an operation was performed to-day.

SKULL FRACTURED. \ (rasas ASSOCUTXO* ULxajux.) NELSON, March 2. h. Sixtua, of Upper Moutere, was taken to hospital in a critical condition with »■. fraptured skull, received through his motor-cycle skidding on a bridge flpproochi • /■ <

DROWNING ACCIDENT. tmin ISBOCUTtOV rsuraJUH.) : GISBOENE, March 2. , A verdict of ■ drowning bftthing was.-retfrned to-day at the ingueat on JohnMarsliall, theCoronor remarking that iti 1 was difficult to account f<Sr thfc drowning, as, Marshall wag able ito swim and medical evidence showed that nothing was wrong with physically or organically! -

K " t > , J J k BURNED BY EXPLOSION , > OF BENZINE. 1 "' - • * (PlUSflfl ASSOOUTZOK tBIMQBkH,} . : V . . WELLINGTON, Match. L Store* people were burned, one through a flrein a' waahhouse to a house at Miramar. The Are , iaVSiaidUo h&ve started through a i' nakei light • coming in contact with; the -benzine with which clotheef - \ ■ tfhe\hpu6<Si is owned and ,occupied by Alien, who was burned alightlj On 4He ,left' f hand. and forearm in i at vieWptfng'tor deaL,-with the blaze, Mrt id, burned' on the Jefi

nana; arm, face, ana/neex, ana -aaiss gpiß'ljfend .Buffered ,severe burns ,■ to ne<jk,. lapdp, and arms. ivf'. • - vT' *■ ■ ,#f i 11 if<: (FHSSa MSOCUttOX MLJO»AM.) '* tvr March 2. Horace Monteath r aged 32/- married/ farmed of- Gor^e" soad, V«s drpwnod yesterd&y''af tefhoon £tt the Mataura '*i when a lyottt- Aapafyed/ ifiie body hair aoO^fc'beea'Teoovered.' COLLISION St intersection. t f 5J , , V t '•/ ** \ ms* Y rw,< ** ' » TV* 1 f > k . A ■ collision between two - at- the 'intersection of Barbadoes and etifeeta early afternopn jrssultSd in one, a flve-seater rfrlyen%lr^ T being-knocked pyer 'on its side and slightly damaged. The Otter' motor-car, driven by a Vomanrhfid tie left headlight broken, -tie 'springs damaged; "the -front imjdguards btcfled, and the radiator bent. Neither the. drivers" W£.s injured. 'k j „ 4 V in the Ulph'aka area considerate > damage has been done to Maort.dwelllngfl and'.other buildings by the', earthquakes, .but the Natives' are not thrqatirig' fcheir necessities on the noticerpf tke, relief i authorities, recognieing"tb'atl®na°y people in flawke's Bay greater claims for assistance than they, 'Captstin W. T, Pitt 'in last week. The fine weather Bad beeij ap' 1 incalculable boon to the Maoris,'jjis to European, Mttlera,-in the zone* of' damage,* and ,the necessity of sleeping fijit of doors had not indicted any.gr eat-fiardshipsi but if'the weather J .brokej-' tfo v community'of would ■ be in a bad way, he added. The township- certainly would be cut off'by slips ; oji the rOad and thfe Matives there would f be'dpspeiident.'on such supplied of>food 1 as, mightfcbeTactually/'at iand there. At I owaa .no actual',want that. * Captain,; Pitt was ajvare of due. to the earthquake damage, and the •^p6jd ! ' tV at ' when troubles of the Say towns were adjusted their , own .claims have considerationr--1 work) "especially as" honse..to W getting, jla)ff,itt*E»gla»d. r Parents, Are ; beg*nning itoirealipe' jfchat>iindej'the'-Jjetter conditions, with tree housing, keep, and laun- ' dry. thttir ssßgbtera are -Ijettet off than $ other' walks of life. , -y U*/ „ V'-'Vj.