STREET ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 43, 14 November 1919, Page 7

STREET ACCIDENT

MOTOR-CAR RUNS OVER CHILD. Another serious motor-car accio'ent occurred on Lambton Quay yestordny, when a child was severely injured. A motor-car driven by Miss Alison Stott. of ITobson Street, who was accompanied by Air. S.. B. Davys, of Kelburn Parade, had just turned Stewart Dawson's corner from Willis Street, when Mrs. Blair, of Kilbirnie, attempted to wheel a perambulator containing her eightcen-months-old child, Phyllis G. Blair, across tho road. The accident happened in n flash. The points confitablo signalled to Mise Stott all clear, and she proceeded slowly round the cornw. Mrs. Blair was standing on tho footpath with her perambulator on tho road. Drenaring to move across. She had apparently looked to see if the traffic was clear, turned, and started off, iust as the car came round. The car was on her in a second, ana' obviously confused, she hesitated, tried to pull the nernmhulntor back, but released her hold us the ear waa on it. . The left-hand front and back wheels of the motor-car passed right over the perambulator and child.

])r. G. M. Shitrpo, of Auckland, who happened to bo in tho vicinity, attendMi' the child, and ordered her removal to the hosivital. Her injuries consist of a. fracture at the baso of the slrall and fracture of the ribs. The hospital authorities report that there is every hope of the. child recovering. ■ TRAP COLLIDES WITH. TRAM. Shortly before 7 o'clock last evening a little girl named Pi'gsy Comptoi), who resides with her parents in Kilbirnio Crescent, sustained a fracture of her right leK through the trap in which she was riding colliding with a trnm-enr. It nnpears Hint the- trap was proceeding along the crescent when the hone shied at an approaching motor-cur and ran on Ui ii tram, with the result that the trap capsized and tho 'occupants were thrown to the ground. The little girl was tho only ono to sustain an injury, and was removed to the hospital for treatment. RAILWAY FATALITY. By Tclcgrni-U—Press Association. Feildiiifl, November 13. A shocking railway fatclity occurred here tihis afternoon. A man, whose name is at: present) linkuown, attempted to board a moving train about 5 o'clock, and fell between the carriage and tho platform. Ho was killed almost instantly, the body being fearfully mangled.