ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1930, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WOMAN KILLED

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, -March 30.

Mrs L. Hampden and .Miss R. Clark, who reside at 7, Yenelle St., \icie knocked down by a motor-car outside the Government Buildings about (5.>50 on Saturday night. 'Mrs Hampden received a fractured skull, a fractured left ankle, a lacerated wound on the scalp, and concussion, andnshe died in tnc Wellington Hospital at 8.00 a.m. io-day. Miss Clark escaped with injuries to the left arm and shock. KILLED BY TRAM. AUCKLAND, March 00. Fatal injuries were received by Thomas Gannon, aged 52, a married man, as the result of being knocked down by a tramcar near the foot of C ollege Hill, Freeman’s Bay, at about o o’clock last evening. The injured man was removed to the Auckland Hospital. An operation was performed.but Gannon died at 7.50 this morning. He was a Gas Company employee of Point Chevalier.

. MAIN TRUNK LINE ACCIDENT. • AUCKLAND, March 00. A minor derailment on the Main Trunk Line between Pokako and Erua, near Oliakiine, occurred at about 11 •o’clock last evening, wlven four wag--gons left the rails- during shunting operations'.' The main line was fouled for some hours, and two goods trains word held up until the line bad been cleared, at about 7 o’clock this morning. Both tnc North and South bound expresses had passed through' before the accident. No damage was caused to the track, which was cleared as soon as possible. MOTOR SMASH. WAIHI, March 29. Five persons were injured when a gig in which they were driving to Waihi last evening came into collision with a cream lorry driven by John .Alexander Broadfoot, of Waihi. They were R. M. Howe and Mrs Howe, who suffered ;severe cuts to the head and shock; their son, Vc'rnon, aged three, who sustained a gash on the right foot; Mrs Edi,t-h Gollop, who had her legs .-badly bruised; and her brother, Tliom!as Gibson, aged 18, whose head was ■slightly injured. Howe, Mrs Howe and their son, were admitted to the Waihi Hospital. Howe nas not yet regained consciousness. MOTOR CYCLE. ACCIDENTS.

ONE MAN KILLED. [ WELLINGTON. March 31. m Gebrge Albert Broadfoot,» 2o; died a t the hospital from injuries received in a head on collision between motor cycles at Karori. The other rider, D. M. Smith, was badly injured. J. Carr (an engineer) crashed on a motor cycle at 'Porapauma and had the tips 1 ! of 'his right hand fingers and nrst finger on the left hand cut off. T. P. jEleteroft, a...shop .assistant reeived a compound fracture of the right leg by a t-olli sion between motor cycles at Kilbirnie. CAR FATALITY. MAN AND WIFE KILLED. OPOTIKI, ZSfa reli 31. A shocking fatality occurred yesterday. F. Gracknell, aged 60, a publicworks employee acompanied by his wife, was driving a car up Waioeka Gorge and went over the side down a stoop slope. The man was thrown out and killed instantly and liis wife received severe head injuries from which she died in the. hospital last night. Her cries were heard by two men passing in a car and they got her up and took her to the hospital.