NGAHAURANGA FATALITY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 303, 16 September 1920, Page 8

NGAHAURANGA FATALITY

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Mr J B. Kviuis. 8.51.. lieW. ™ ™« Bst yesterday afternoon into the circumstances Ending the death of Oyrll » ton veara of ase, who wa» run o\er by I"Jam wagon driven by Heavy .Jackson, at Kijahwiranea on Tiießday. Senlor-Detective Boddnra appeared for the. Police, and Mr. J. O'Shea (Cits.Solicitor* watched the prpceetlinßs on bchall .of the City Corporation, the owners of 1 Alexander Knopn. the father of the child n"id he was a B'.aughterman • residing at Ncohauranßa, and at about 3 n.m. on Tunday he received word that hiß eon had been injured in the Nealiauraima Gorge. He nrncnred' the Wellington Meat Export. Company's ambulance, and in comnanv with another man .-went to the scene of the accident. When the lad wan plnccd in the ambulance he was in n. very 'iw condition and uiicnnscioUß. and died on the way to the Hospital. , Aleie Owen, a lad eleven years or age, stated that on Tuesday afternoon, when opposite the meat works, he saw a, Btenro wagon, which was Mill* in the direction of tho eorite- He saw Cyril Know sntjie on tho waron on the left, side of tho driver at the front, After the wn?or. passed witness looked back, and saw Cyril Knopn on ihe ground, but he did. not see him fall off Henry Jackson, the driver of the wagon, said that on Tuesday afternoon he was oimaned in oartin» m?t-l from tho cumy in" the Ngahauranna Gorge to the Hutt Road. About.3 p.m., when driving iw tho Gone Road and on-oslte tho Meat TNorks. he felt a hump. aiid i-nmcdinjely shut off steam, applied the brakes, and stopped the wagon in about ha'f its length. When he felt, the hump he was travelling at not, more than two miles per hour. He cot off the wagon immediately it otonped, walked round the front to the left-hand Bide, and- saw a boy on the cround He was lying on his left side, parallel to the wagon with •'• wheel of the trailer touchir" him. Tho lad was unconscious, and hfj right knee Bhowed a wound that was bleeding. The accident occurred at a bend in the road There waR a scat on the left-hand fide of the wagon besides the driver's seat on the right side. If anyone without tho knowledge of the driver cot on to the left nide seat he could not be seen by the driver because the boiler between the two Beats obscuring the viev. Witness did not see the boy get on to tho \va<ron. and did not know he waß in the Beat on the left-hand side. The waeon was ompty when the accident happened. The Coroner decided to visit the locality to-day at 2 p.m. before giving his decision.