ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 18 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

PECULIAR MOTOR MISHAP

(Per Press Association.)

Invercargill. March 16.

Robert Russell, stock dealer, and Thos. Brown, a farmer at Wright’s Bush, had a sensational experience while motoring on Friday night. They had passed another motor car going in the samedirection,but its brighter lights made it difficult to see the road properly. Russell missed the turn of the road, near the New River, and drove straight into the fence protecting the stream. Both men were thrown into the water by the force of the impact. Russell fell into shallow water and managed to scramble ashore. He saw Brown, who had apparently been stunned, floating down the stream, and by taking hold of a flax bush and reaching out he was able to bring him ashore. Neither was much hurt, but the motor car was badly damaged. A FALL INTO THE HARBOUR. Wellington, March 16. A Norwegian sailor named James Swamvick, of unknown address, fell ' ; off the Glasgow wharf last night. His cries were heard by .the wife of the keeper of the hulk Coromandel, moor-' ! ' ed alongside the steamer Arawa. .gibe assisted him to get on the hulk from a girder to which he was clinging, and,, he was cared for. until the afternoon, when he was removed to the hospital. The man was found to be badly bruised, and it i® supposed that he was jammed between the hulk and the steamer.

A SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Wellington, Marcll 16. A man named Jack Bassett] while out rabbiting at Island Bay, met with a serious accident. He was stooping for a shot at a rabbit when the trigger of his gun caught in some shrubbery, and the charge exploded. The shot f tore all the muscle and flesh from his upper arm, but missed the bone. He was removed to the hospital, where he )•} now lies, very weak from loss of blood. A BICYCLE ACCIDENT. Timaru, March 17. At the St. Patrick’s Day sports at Geraldine, in the first bicycle race, Everett (Christchurch) and Meharry (West Coast) collided, and both fell heavily. Everett broke his shoulder blade.