THREE STREET ACCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 170, 8 April 1918, Page 4

THREE STREET ACCIDENTS

TWO SOLDIERS INJURED. "On Saturday morning, Thomas Henry Jopson, residing at 14 Campbell Street, fell off a lorry that he was driving near Lambton Station. He wns admitted to the Hospital, suffering from a broken leg. Trooper Bert Johnson, of I J, Dorset Road, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from injuries to his leg, sustained through a collision with a tramcar on Hamilton Road, Kilbirnie. He was riding a motor-cvele at tho time of the accident. On Saturday afternoon, Private L. Lucas, of Fea'therston Camp, a returned soldier, was run over by a tramcar on Lambton Quay, and suffered severe injuries to his right leg, which is bad,ly fractured. He was admitted lo the Hospital. It seems that Lucas endeavoured to board, a moving tramcar. He missed his footing, and one leg got under the wheels of the car. When the car was stopped it was found that Lucas could not be extracted without the car being jacked up. About twenty minutes elapsed before he was released. Medical attention was secured, and Lucas made ready to be removed to Wellington Hospital. However, there was a long delay—probably about a quarter of an hour—before the Hospital ambulance arrived. Meanwhile the doctor was compelled to keep Lucas, who must have been in great pain, waiting on the footway. A large crowd of people assembled at tho scene of th« accident, and there was general indignation at the delays.