ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 22 November 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association).

The intersection of Bangitikei and Featherstone streets, Palmerston North, was the scene of a collision last night between a car driven by a man named Ross, of Wellington, and a motor eyclist, Jack Fleming, aged 17 years, of Palmerston North. The latter was picked up unconscious and sent to hospital with ugly facial cuts and fractured jaw, and expired before anything could be done for him.

At nine o’clock yesterday morning Robert William Hest,, married, Shrewsbury street, Merrivale, Christchurch, left home apparently in good health, but saying that Jie was unable to cycle to Sockburn, where ho had work to do. At 7.15 last night a neighbour of Hest was walking in a little wooded grove adjoining Best’s residence, where he found his neighbour’s body lying under the trees with his throat cut. The man had been dead for some hours. It was apparent that a razor had been used, but it could not be found last night, as the light was failing.

Yesterday afternoon, Simpson Dunn, aged 65, walked into the side of a moving tram in Custom House Square. Dunedin, sustaining serious injuries. He was removed to hospital, where he is in a critical condition

The Auckland-Thames express ran into a furniture-laden motor lorry at Buckland level crossing at 10.57 this morning, William Austin Braithwaite being killed. His son, Leslie James Braithwaite, the driver of the vehicle, was slightly injured and a man named 1 Scott, who was shifting to Harrisville, where he had acquired a farm, was seriously injured and taken to hospital. The lorry was badly smashed.

Last night Charles Gates, aged 21, when riding a pillion on a motor cycle near Piopio, was thrown to the ground when the machine ran over a dog. The other man escaped with minor injuries. The injured man was taken to Te Kuiti Hospital where .an X-ray examination disclosed that he had sustained a broken and dislocated neck. He is still alive but his condition is precarious.