Six Injured In Accidents

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 18

Six Injured In Accidents

A boy. Bernard North, the son of Mrs M. E. North, of 53 Memorial avenue, suffered lacerations to the head when he fell at the Jellie Park swimming pool about 6.20 p.m. yesterday. He was standing on a rail surrounding the pool when he slipped and struck his head on the pool’s tiled edge. He was treated at the Christchurch Hospital and discharged. When he fell from a horse at the Riccarton racecourse about 6.44 a.m. yesterday, Mr P. Ryall, of 139 Yaldhurst road, suffered injuries to the back. He was treated at the Christchurch Hospital and discharged. Mr S. H. Wilson, of 205 Gerald street, suffered minor injuries in Moorhouse avenue about 2.35 p.m. yesterday when his cycle struck the door of a parked car as the door was being opened. He was treated at the Christchurch Hospital and discharged.

When a truck and a motorcycle collided at the intersection of Waltham road and Moorhouse avenue about 3.30 p.m. yesterday the motorcyclist. John Charles Clinenston, of 41 Olliviers road, suffered leg injuries. He was

treated at the Christchurch Hospital and discharged. Mrs May Ira Goldthorpe, of 56 Sewell street, Kaiapoi, suffered minor injuries when she was struck by a car in Lichfield street about 5.35 p.m. yesterday. She was treated at the Christchurch Hospital and discharged.

A car which had been travelling down Dyers Pass road toward Governor’s Bay left the road about midnight on Monday and plunged 100 feet down the hillside. The only occupant, Frank Bennett, aged 18, of 160 Russell terrace, Wellington, suffered only a minor injury and did not require hospital treatment. The accident occurred a short distance from the Sign of the Kiwi.