ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 16 January 1917, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SERIOUS MOTORING ACCIDENT. .- : : ." By Telegraph—Press Association.. ■ ■■. ■ Core, January 15. A. motor ■ accident occurred near Beriot yesterday, iii which John Henry Black, aged twelve,;; was killed. His ' parents reside in Gore, and the boy tvas spending his holidays at Heriot. Tho father .went to bring him home. The occupants of the oar were two brothers, tha deceased, his father, mother; and' ft little girl. A tire, burst coming down a hill, and the car dashed into a bank. George Black was injured intprnally, and his condition is- serious. The others received cuts.- ; DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. Chrlstchurch, January 15. . Yesterday afternoon Terence Alexander O'Callaghan, married, residing ju Edinburgh Street, Spreydon, while visiting Sumner with his wife and two children, went to bathe in the- 'surf. He complained of feeling exhausted, and was hold up by a companion till rescued by the Surf Club. All efforts to restore animation failed. The doctors are of opinion < that lie died from heart failure through exhaustion. Deceased, who was 32 'years of age, was a newspaper runner. 3IOTOR CYCLING'ACCIDENT. Waimate, January 15. A man named Allan Shrimpton, while motor cycling from Studholme to Waimate this morning, crashed head-on , into the morning train at Manchester's . crossing, Waimate. His injuries were a fractured skull and an arm was broken in iwo places. The victim is in the hospital at Waimate. in a dangerous conflilion.