SEVERAL ACCIDENTS AT NAPIER.
NAPIER, 2nd June. Napier had a chapter o£ motor accidents during the week-end. Dennis Crowley, a resident at Clive for over forty years, was knocked down by a ca.r at Clive as he was crossing a road. He became confused on the approach of a car driven from Hastings to Napier with a load of hockey players. An inquest into his death was opened on Saturday evening and adjourned. William James Munro, a clerk at Niven and Co.'s, was found; unconscious on the Napier-terrace, having been run over by a car, which had driven off, leaving Munro lying on the road. He was taken to the hospital, where a slight improvement in his condition 16 reported. The driver of the car has not been discovered. A car proceeding to Hastings on Saturday night after the performance at the theatre overturned at Waitangi. No one was injured. On Sunday two cars collided at the hospital gates, but no one was injured. Another motor accident occurred today. Jack Fox, aged four years, son of Conductor Fox, of the City Band, was run over by a motor-car on the Marineparade and one of his thighs and his skull were fractured. The boy is in the hospital in a serious state.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 3 June 1919, Page 11
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