ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 37, 14 October 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

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[Per Press Association.]

Auckland, October 14

A girl named Newdick, 3, set fire to some scrub on the roadside at Pokurangi, and her clothing caught fire. The little one was badly burned and died in a few hours later.

TWO MOTOR ACCIDENTS. Timaru, October 13. Two bad collisions between motorcyclists and motor-cars occurred yesterday and to-day on the same road, find not far from each other. On Sunday Mr R. Bertie, licensee of the Crown Hotel, Timaru, while motoring southwards with his wife and niece and a driver, were met near Otaia by two motor-cyclists of Oamaru, named | Dunlop and Davies, going at a great pace. The former ~in the lead, seemed to lose control, and ran into the bonnet of thq car and was thrown through the windscreen. He landed in a heap on the back seat between the two women, with a "big gash in tlio forehead, and bled profusely. Bertie turned back and brought him to a private hospital in his car, which was much damaged, and the cycle was crumpled up. In the second accident, at 2 a.m. this morning, near Maklkihi, Davies, who was Dunlop’s mate on Sunday, was, being motored back to Oamaru, too unnerved to cycle back. A motorcyclist, travelling at great speed and without a light, collided with, the side of the car. The rider, Mulligan, a hairdresser, of Oamaru, had his leg broken in two or three places, his right arm lacerated, and sustained concussion of the brain. The car turned back and brought him to the Timaru Hospital, where he is still unconscious and his condition precarious.