ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2677, 29 December 1923, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RUNAWAY TRAMCAR. Auckland, December 27. A tram ear got out of control while descending the steep grade in Upper Queen St. and overtook another tram. Both ears were much damaged. The driver of the Tun-a-way car, Walter King, who stuck to the brakes, sustained severe abraiions to the face, and it was fortunate ho was not killed. Ashburton, December 27. Gorton Stoddard, n. married man, 30 years of ago, working at. Hinds, was watching the races from the stand recently erected to accommodate the overflow from the grandstand, when lie overbalanced backwards and crashed to the ground, a distance of 12 feet. He was picked up severely injured in the back. At first it was feared that if. was broken. Two doctors attended (lie man, who-was removed to hospital. A closer examination of iiie hack disclosed a rupture of 1 lie ligaments. His condition is more hopeful to-day. Dunedin, December 27. John Robert Cameron, (22), a single man, slipped from the roof of a. house which lie was tarring, and was taken to hospital with an injured spine. Dunedin, Last. Night. A motor, carrying five passengers overturned between Kawarau bridge and Gillston, near Cromwell. The car was driven by Matai Horne, a son of Mr Horne, M.P., and the passengers injured were .Clarice JohifStone, of Dunedin, aged 19, and a boy, Butterfield. The latter was seriously injured, his chest being crushed. The ear was nearing the top of a hill, when a tyre was punctured, the car overturning.