KILLED BY MOTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 3

KILLED BY MOTOR

i£,y Telegraph- -Per Press Association.: ' WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. As the result of a collision between a motor lorry, and a bicycle at the intersection of Hansom and Hall Streets, Wellington South, about" five o’clock to-night, George Allan Turnbull, aged 17 years, a. telegraph, messenger, was so badly injured that lie died while being taken .to the, public hospital. .Tlie hoy was proceeding downhill along Hall Street in' an easterly. direction, when lie collided with a lorry belonging to T, A. Wells, Limited, oil and colour merchants, Vivian Street, and driven 'by, Albert Edward; Collins. - 7 ,

Tlie ,boy \im« severely injured in .the legion -of tlie bead, and also' received abresibns to arms and legs. He was the son of John Turnbull, Farnliam St., Mbfning;ton..; ..: •...:. ' Some eight Years ago, Mt Turnbull icist another spiv in. rather tragic circumstances. In company with a man .lamed Thomas, Philip Henry Turnbull, aged 23 years, was ’ engaged in excavating a building section in Balfour Road, Mornington, when the bank begap to move,, and lie was killed by a fall of earth. Thomas’s two children were caught by the falling earth, but were practically uninjured. ■George Turnbull, who was killed today, narrowly escaped from being killed about six years ago when be w«r knocked down by a.motor-car in Newtown, receiving severe internal injuries. For about two. years lie was in the. hospital and had not long recoved.