Man Dragged Beneath Car
WELLINGTON, June 7. Knocked down by a car in Kent Terrace, tonight, an elderly man was dragged several hundred yards beneath a second vehicle before being discovered. He is Mr. T. B. Hay, nightwatchman, of 39 Pirie Street. When admitted to the Wellington Puhlic Hospital he was suffering from severe lacerations to the top of the head, concussion and shock, and also lacerations to the left knee. His condition is reported to he serious. When the driver of the car whicfc struck Hay had stopped after the accident, only a shoe remained on the road at that point. Hay had been caught up in the front spring shackles of a taxi following close behind and was dragged underpeatn as it continued into Vivian Street and later into Taranaki Street. The taxi driver twice stopped to investigate an apparent handicap and m upper Taranaki Street found Hay caught under the chassis.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1948, Page 3
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