ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

I SEVERE INJURIES SUFFERED CAR OVERTURNS NEAR ASHBURTON Severe injuries, a badly broken thigh, broken ribs, head injuries, and severe shock, were suffered by Mr H. F Nicoll of Ashburton, president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, when his motor-car overturned on the Main South road between Fairton and Dromore, near Ashburton, yesterday afternoon. , It is believed that a rear lyre on the car burst and the vehicle swerved off the bitumen on to the shingle, burning completely over, and came to rest a few yards from a gravel pit Mr Nicoll was admitted to the Oakhurst Hospital, Ashburton. Mrs Nicoll, who accompanied, her husband, suffered a shaking but was not injured. The car was badly damaged. The condition of Mr Nicoll late last night was to be serious.

MAN'S DEATH FROM INJURIES STRUCK WHEN FELLING TKEB

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REEFTON, September 26. While felling a. tree in .the bush at Mawheraiti, near Reef ton, "yesterday afternoon. William F. Hahn, aged 52, was "struck by a lower limb of the tree on which he was working, when it came away from the butt unexpectedly. Hahn suffered severe head injuries, including a fracture of the skull. He was at-, tended by Dr. Wicken. He died in the Inangahua Hospital last night. Hahn was a native of the West Coast, and the family is well known in the Grey Valley and in Greymoutn. He was a married man with two children;.