ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10318, 29 January 1927, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

LV>Y CYCLISTS COLLIDE WITH MOTORS ONE LAD KILLED OUTRIGHT ANOTHER DIES IN' HOSPITAL AUCKLAND, Ja,n. 28. While riding bicycles this morning tv.-j lads residents of. Point Chevalier, collided with motors. One lad was ki L ed outright, and the other lies in a serious condition in the Auckland Hospital. Sidney James Cole, aged 11 years, Son” of Mr Arthur Cole, Point Chevaber, was killed through being J reached down by a motor truck, the unfortunate lad was riding a bicycle alongside one of Wins tone s tiireeton trucks loaded with metal, liotli v. yra proceeding along the main road towards Point Chevalier, and the driver of the truck, William Bowie,y, noticed the lad on the bicycle, and j; said to have called out: lou.aie 1 ■•-ping too near me.” Next, the driv felt a bunrp and then saw the lad lying on the road The father of the lad witnessed the dient. It was apparent that the I, ov had been killed outright. Russell Johnston, aged lb years residing in Huia Street, Point Cheekier, "was riding his bicycle in Epc(jri\ w hen near the corner oi Manuka;; ’ and Onslow roads came m„colIdion with a motor car driven by Mr A Brittain. He was removed to the hd'rpital where it was found he was severing from a fractured skull. His co-edition is serious.— P.A. Later. The boy Russell Johnson has died i ■ the hospital.—P.A. CHILD’S PALL OVER. CLIFF LOCALITY SHOULD BE FENCED. AUCKLAND, Jan. 28. An inquest was held this morning before Mr Hunt, S.M.. Coroner, concerning the death of Ivy Joan Smith, ? -d ten wars, who died at the /': Aland hospital from injuries susf iried through falling over a cliff nc- r Shelly Reach baths last Sunday morning. . A Ponsoidly resident said lie was fitting on the beach, and saw the child "fall over the cliff. It was a terribly slippery place at the top, with a shin.'- surface. The girl seemed to 10-e her balance. Mr Hunt: Don’t you think it v, Icl he a good tiling if a place ]>!..■ that,acre fenced off?

Wnrif-S I think that all the tracks tiiere slu uld he fenced off, as the children art, always playing round the f ; :-, of the cliff. .It is a very dangerous plac.- and there have been nteiA- its there before.

In retiming a verdict *>i accidonla! ctc-nth Mr Hunt said it would be well i draw the attention of the authorit: to the desirability of fencing ike locality so that such an unfortuned ? accident would not happen again. The Coroner extended his sympathy to the deceased’s father. —P.A. OrilL’P FATAL FALL FROM WAGGON HAMILTON, Jam 23. At Eureka to-day, June Felicity S'-aville, the nine and a-lialf year-okl daughter of Mi' Ronald Sertvilie, farmer. was thrown from a milk waggon and killed. The nccicl: it occurred on a farm where the ghl. was spending a holiday. She was riding in a waggon when the vehicle r-teuck a bump and the, girl fell to the front, taking the reins with her. The horses took fright and bolted. Do 2 th was instantaneous.—P.A.