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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1926, Page 3

20 WOMEN FAINT. LONDON, May 26. When a bphy was killed and three women were injured by one of two lorries' which mounted the pavement after a, collision in Winstanley-road, Battersea, S.AV., yesterday afternoon, more than 20 women who saw the accident were so overcome that they tainted. Mrs A. Stepney, of Battersen. who was pinned beneath u wheel, was removed to hospital, seriously injured, and her three years old daughter, Agnes, was killed outright. Two other women were injured, hut one was not detained.

The accident occurred at the -Tossing of Winstanley-road and Newcom-en-road. A one-oti motor-lorry going up Newcomen-road collided at the corner with heavier lorry travelling up Winstanley road. The ton lorry turned a complete circle and came to rest on the pavement, while the heavier vehicle mounted the pavement opposite, climbed tuo steps and dashed into a group standing in the doorway of a greengrocer’s and ice-cream shop owned by.Mr ' a.ssara, who said:— “There was awful screaming outside the shop. It was from a. woman who bad been knocked down. On each of the front' wheels a woman was clinging. and one seemed to have been run over.” Scores of woman wore m the stioet at the time, many at their front doors, and accounts agree that more than 20 of them fainted. One of them fainted again on passing the shop five hours biter. _____