ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 16

ACCIDENTS.

motor-car damaged. An accident with unusual features oceurred at Sumner 'last evening, when! a North Island car bound for Lytteltpn crashed into a: stone fence, with extensive damage to the car, while the driver escaped injury t J The accident'occurred shortly, after 6 p.nu The car, a Dodge limousine, laden with traveller's" samples, was proceeding down Nayland street on the way to Lyttelton to catch the ferry. It is stated that when the car was -opposite Mr Barley's residence, which .'is fronted by.a solid stone wall,, the right-hand front tyre blew out and this, together with the effect of the'bad road 'surface, caused'the car to, lurch violently to the right, on to the • footpath. Marks on the pavement' and on the wall showed that the. car' scraped along the wall for several feet and appeared to have been brought to rest by violent contact , with a" tramway pole on the edge of the footpath. Extensive damage- resulted to the right-hand front .wheel,, which broke' away from the'axleand to the left-hand side of the car which received a battering from the post. CHILD KILLED. • ■' ■ :■' 1 ■r) . (PEXSS ASSOCIATION. SIMOSAKi) ' , AUCKLAND, March 6. Fatal injuries were: received by a child of three years, Peter Samuel Hudson, whose parents reside at Henderson, as a result of ■being struck by the engine of* a. suburban train near the' Henderson Railway Station. The boy. with a brother a little older, was playing on the railway line.' He received a fracture of the skull and died two,hours later. FATAL COLLISION. "• " \ .■ ' ■ X ASSOCIAMOH TEUCOXIX.) / WELLINGTON, March. 6. Through a collision between a* motor-, car and a bicycle which occurred at Eastbourne early this evening, a cyclist received injuries ' from. which' he died in the Wellington Hospital three: hours later. He was Jl&mes Ridgway, .of Totara street, married, aged 79. The accident occurred at the corner of Muritai -road and Bona 'street. Ridgway was riding along Muritai road on his to the Post Office. Aflve-seater motor-car driven by Miss M. Black, who had as a passenger the borough inspector, Mr N„ Green, was going in the opposite direction before turning down ' Bonaatfeofcr Ridgway seemed to notice the car approaching and turned down Bona street also and a collision occurred.