ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. In returning a verdict in the inquest into the ilenUi of Joseph Allen, who collapsed under anmsthetic at Christchurch Hospital, the - -roner (Mr Mosley, S.M.) said it was satisfactory to learn that the death was not due to any lack of skilL-or care on the part of the hospital staff. The eyidenccwas that Allen would havo died within eighteen hours had an operation not been attempted.—Press Association.

TWO KILLED IN MOTOR SMASH. A terrible motor smash occurred on the Maraugai Hill, five miles from AVanganui, on the main road, last night, when a car containing three men apparently skidded in loose metal, left the road, and somersaulted dowiT a steep slope, coming to rest 100yds from the road. Two men were killed—viz., David Hector M'Kenzie, single, aged twentyseven, a traveller for Messrs Levin and Co., at Wellington, and. another, thought to be William Earle, aged thirty, a storekeeper of Khandallah, where ho was in business with his brother. A third man, William Emery Do Malmanelie, a grocer, of Levin, who joined the others at that town, escaped death miraculously, and was taken to the AVanganui Hospital, where it was reported late last night that_ his condition was not serious, consisting of shoulder injuries. -The driver is thought to have been M'Kcime, who used the ear in his business. The faces of the deceased were terribly mutilated, and M'Kenzio was only identified by the papers in his pocket. The car was wrecked beyond repair. FATAL FALL. A Public AVorks employee, named Robert Samuel, employed at the AVaikaremoana hydro-electric works at Kaitawa, fell off a wall, and received serious injuries, from which he died later in hospital. At the inquest a verdict was returned that deceased died from injuries received by an accidental 1 nil from a ladder to a concrete floor in the AYaikaremoana hydro-electric works. THROAVN FROM MOTOR CYCLE. Near Akaroa last evening Roy Gilbert, of Lavcrick’s Bay, was thrown from a motor cycle as the result of a collision with a motor car on the Hill road. He was admitted to the Akaroa Hospital, with a fractured leg and bruises. His condition is not considered serious. ELECTROCUTED IN GARAGE. Peter Egan, a motor garage proprietor, who, with his brother, entered business on his own account before Christmas, was electrocuted in the garage at AA r estport while working with a portable electric lamp. The deceased, a single man, thirty-three years of age, was formerly employed by tno Stockton Coal Company on electrical work, and later in' inotbr garages at Nelson and Takaka.