VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE
FIRST AID IN ACCIDENT p.A. AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. A bystander’s knowledge of first aid saved a man who was crushed between two tramcars from bleeding to death, in a busy city street shortly before 9 o’clock this morning. The injured man was an Auckland Transport Board
tramway inspector, William Howell, aged 51, of Mount Roskill, who suffered a compound fracture of the leg and a severed femoral artery. _ Howell was standing on the track adjusting the trolley pole of a tramcar about to leave when another tram, which had pulled up behind him to discharge passengers, moved forward crushing him against the car in front. Realising that the main artery in
Howell’s left leg had been severed and that he could bleed to death in about two or three minutes, C. L. Davies, of One Tree Hill, who was on the spot, promptly came to his assistance. He arrested the flow of blood with digital pressure until an ambulance arrived on the scene. Howell’s leg had to be amputated below the hip and his condition is serious.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 8
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179VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 8
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