ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1932, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CHILD KILLED; BY CAR

, tty Telegraph—Pe. Press Association t

z HAMILTON,VMa yJX. Itebni't Charkk .."aged eight years,; a son di- Mf Leslie Diiunmond, accountant, ol' Putamru, .sustained fatal injuries 011 the Arapum Road at Putaruru yesterday afternoon. Thi) boy ..was playing ujotbail with other children and ran across tne road 111 tne ■■ path of a. motor-car dm ell by Mrs Gilmour, of Wailii. The child died;.; : short)y aityr it was knocked down, the iiijfi'rios ' including broken arms, a fractured skull, and internal, injuries. -

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

DUNEDIN, May 22.

Frank liorlase a well-known track cyclist, was killed on Saturday evening through a motor cycle that he. was riding, colliding with another machine at the intersection of George and St. David Streets.

. W. E. Adams, the rider of the other "machine .received, abrasions aml head injuries, and his pillion passenger, Eria Mathewson, suffered a fractured leg. John McLean, also was riding pillion .oil Horlase’s machine, and received head injuries. MOTOR CYCLISTS HURT. i HAMILTON. May 23. ’ Allan Hammond, a motor cyclist, Iraetfired his leg, while a pillion rider, Rex Edwards Vile, was admitted to the hospital in a : serious condition with a fractured pelvis as the result of a collisioh with a motor ear, driven by Mr Peter Simon, at Ngaruawaliia last night.