ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19803, 29 February 1928, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SERIOUS SPINAL INJURY. Serious spinal injuries wore sustained by Mrs Annie Maria Ocincke, of Napier, through the capsize of a lorry on the razorback deviation between Pukekohe and Mercer. The lorry skidded on the web day and overturned. Mrs Oomckc's husband, who was driving, escaped injury. The Auckland ambulance reached the locality inside an hour, and the injured woman was taken to Auckland Hospital. TERRIBLE HEAD INJURIES. With terrible head injuries and fractured rib.s, received through being knocked down by a railway engine near Glen Eden station yesterday morning, Samuel Hare, aged sixty-five, a married man with five children, who lives at Glen Eden, was taken to Auckland Hospital. It is understood that Hare was running to catch the train, and in some way stumbled and fell, his head crashing against the piston rod of the engine. He is in serious condition.— Press Association. OCTOGENARIAN SEVERELY SCORCHED. Awakened from sleep last night to find his room in flames, William Stephens, eighty-nine years, had his hands and left foot severely scorched before he could get out of range of the outbreak. He was admitted to hospital, but his condition is not serious. Ste phens was on a visit from Tiraaru. The flames were confined to one room.—• Christchurch P.A. Telegram.