ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21413, 4 March 1935, Page 19

ACCIDENTS

FATAL INJURIES j WOMAN KNOCKED DOWN j BY CAR I i ;rHES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM .1 INVERCARGILL, March 2. Serious injuries, which later proved fatal, were sustained this morning by Miss Delia Daley, aged 67, when she was struck by a motor-car driven by Michael Joseph Gilfedder, a taxidriver, at the intersection of Eye and Nith streets. Gilfedder was travelling south along Nith street, and when crossing over the railway line noticed the woman standing in the centre of the road at the intersection. Miss Daley, it is reported, seemed to be frightened, for she darted back and then forward again, and was struck with the left-hand side of the mudguard. She was conveyed to the i Southland Hospital, suffering from head injuries and a broken right leg, and died about 11.30 a.m. CARS COLLIDE IN | AUCKLAND j CLERGYMAN INJURED II>KESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM. ) AUCKLAND. March 3. In a collision between the small ear he was driving and another car at an intersection in Epsom, the Rev. George William Jackson, of One Tree Hill, received concussion and abrasions. The driver of the other car, John Barrett, was uninjured. The collision was so severe that the driver's side of Mr Jackson's car was completely crushed. The door was torn off. and the windscreen shattered. Mr Jackson fell out on to the roadway. Mr Jackson, who is minister of the Green Lane Congregational Church, was reported by the hospital this afternoon to be not in a serious condition.

SWIMMER SERIOUSLY INJURED While swinging from a pole beneath the diving platform at the Hornbyschool swimming baths, during the Hornby Swimming Club's carnival on Saturday afternoon, L. Grafton, aged about 17 years, of 1 Thackeray street, Sydenham, lost his hold, and fell on his face on the concrete beneath. A St. John ambulance was called, and he was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where he was admitted about 5 p.m. Yesterday afternoon he was on the seriously ill list, but was stated to be progressing satisfactorily. FATAL HEAD INJURIES lan Robert Kennedy, aged 15 yeart. of 41 Garden road, Fendalton, was knocked down by a motor-car at the corner of Armagh street and Park terrace last evening, receiving injuries to his head which later proved fatal. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 6.15 p.m. and flied at I 10.10 p.m.