ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 26. Fatal injuries were received by a cyclist, Joseph Kenneth Ross, aged 29, single, when he was thrown from his cycle after a collision with a motor car at Dominion Road to-day. Ross was picked up unconscious, and died six hours later. Deceased, who was an ex-Navy rating had no relatives in the Dominion. CAR RUNS AWAY. Auckland, May 25. A motor car ran away in Archhill and crashed over a ten-foot bank and a woman and three children who were in the car were injured. One of them, Ronald Dean, aged eighteen months, is in the hospital in a serious condition. Mrs. Dean and the children were waiting in the car for Mr. Dean to drive when evidently one of the children released the brakes. The car ran away and was wrecked. DROWNED WHILE FISHING. Gisborne, May 24. George Sydney Brooking, aged 23 single, a labourer, was drowned near Hicks Bay yesterday as the result of falling from the rocks where he was fishing with a party. His body has not been recovered. CHILD STRUCK BY MOTOR. ’ Wairoa, May 24. Angus Bauld, five years of age, ran across the road last evening to pick up a cigarette card and was knocked down by a passing car. He was removed to hospital in a critical condition. CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR LORRY. Napier, May 26. A tragic motor accident resulting in the death of a five-year-old boy, Patrick Edward Gordon, a son of Michael S. C. Gordon, Haupouri Station, occurred to-day at the home of the child’s grandfather, Charles L. Gordon, of Taurapa Station on Ocean Beach Road, 14 miles from Havelock North and adjoining Haupouri. A carrier named Joseph Mclntyre, of Hastings, had just turned his lorry through a gateway leading into the property and was driving up the pathway when the child, who was standing, near the grandfather behind a - privet hedge, rushed through an opening in the hedge and fell straight in front of the vehicle’s wheels and was killed instantly. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. New Plymouth, May 26. Norman Coburn, a musician of Opunake, who received a fractured skull in a collision between his car and a stationary car on Saturday night died in the hospital today.' KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. Wellington, May 26. H. Cliffe, a middle-aged man, was knocked down by a motor car in the Main street of Lower Hutt and seriously injured in the head. The car did not stop, but its number is known. MOTOR CYCLES COLLIDE. Wellington, May 26. At Eltham, at 10.30 o’clock last night, Felix Jacob Lehrke, aged 20, a grocer at Eltham, was killed when his motor-cycle collided with a motor-cycle ridden by George Alexander Anderson, a farm labourer, in Finnerty road square, at a bend on the mount road within the borough boundary. It was a head-on collision. Both riders were found beneath their machines by passers-by. Lehrke died almost immediately, and Anderson, who was unconscious, had suffered a broken thigh, leg injuries, and a fractured hand. He was taken to the Hawera Hospital. The machines were both badly damaged. The night was clear, and apparently both headlights were burning. Lehrke’s parents left last week to visit Tahiti.' FALL FROM, CHIMNEY. Grey mouth, May 24. John Robertson, aged 49, a married man, residing at Christchurch, died in the Greymouth Hospital last evening from injuries received as the result of a fall whilst sweeping a chimney at Runanga on May 17.