FATALITY IN CUBA STREET

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 6

FATALITY IN CUBA STREET

GIRL KILLED BV DEFENCE MOTOR LOBBY, . Another shocking fatality due, to motor traffic was added yesterday afternoon to thi! steadily growing list-; when a girl named Vvoimo Laivton, , . dnlighter of .Mr. 11. \V. l-iwton, ngricnltiirnl instructor for the Wellington Education Board, was killed bv a heavy motor-lorry belong.ng to the Defence Department, whilst she was crossing Ciiba Street. It seems that the girl, who was only IO.J years old, was out with her mother aiid'fiistor. T,he two latter had crossed the street, and eho was following when a Defenco motor-lorry, driven by Joseph Turnbull, ran the girl down and inflicted Bueh injuries that she died within five minutes of the accident, Tho unfortunate girl waa removed to the shop of 11. Linnpy iind Co., drapers, where she expired almost immediately. Dγ Clay was summoned, but life was extinct. The driver staled that the girl emerged suddenly from tho e'dowalk, and he at once jammed on his brakps, but too late to avoid the accident. Tho lorry was pulled up before the rear wheels could touch Hi" piil's body. The lorry was a M-ton vehicle. , , , . Within half an hour the lorry had been taken in charge by n motor inspector, who brought tho vehicle to the council's yard and tested the brakes. The lorn- was on its Tight side of tho road, and* was said to bo travelling at about eix miles an hour.