BOY BREAKS A LEG.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5382, 1 February 1929, Page 2

BOY BREAKS A LEG.

ACCIDENT AT PLAYGROUND.

KNOCKED OVER BY SWING.

While playing with the swings ill the Children’s Playground on Wednesday afternoon Cecil Dawson, aged 14, sc>ii of Constable Dawson, had the misfortune to break a leg. The accident occurred when the boy, on alighting from the swing, attempted to run across at the back of it, but through misjudging the speed, the swing, on which other childrep .were riding, caught tjie lad’s thigh in its backward motion, knocking, him ovejr. In falling his leg twisted and brojkc just above the ankle.

Mr L. Nevin, who was, passing at the time, heard the screams, and learning the nature of the accident, placed the boy in liis c,ar and drove to Dr. Little, who, after rendering first-aid, ordered him to the Thames Hospital, Upon inquiry this morning it was learned that the pati.ejnt was progressing very favourably.. This is the second! serious accident at. the playground within a couple of months, the first one resulting in the depth of a child.