ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 16 June 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A SERIOUS BOLT. Pee Puebs Association. Auckland, Juno 15. A in:t 11 named Daniel Edward Daly, employed by tlio Auckland City Council, met with a serious accident this morning. He was driving a lorry loaded with metal from a quarry, and had a team of three horses to handle. One was a young animal, and it took fright at a load of timber, and the team bolted. Daly, who is an excellent driver, managed to some extent to control his horses, but they dashed on to the footpath. Even then Daly was guiding them well; but an elderly woman was in the track, and he had to choose between running her down and a collision with a telegraph post. He saved the woman's life, but got sadly knocked about himself. Apparently Daly must have struck the telegraph post himself, although tbe wheels of the wagon cleared both that obstacle and also a store. As the wagon bumped off the footpath again on to the street it came to grief, the pole being smashed and the fore car'riage splintered. Daly's left arm was crushed from the shoulder down, and it will in all probability have|to be amputated. His face was also injured.