YOUNG MAN KILLED IN GREAT NORTH RD.
ARCHHILL FATALITY WIFE WITNESSES ACCIDENT While crossing Great North Road, Archhill, at 6.30 p.m. last evening to board a city-bound tramcar, Mr. George Andrew Benjamin Norton, aged 25, was knocked down by a motor-car and received injuries from which he died two hours later. The accident occurred near the Hadlow Terrace intersection. The tram was standing at the timerecorder. Mr. Norton, who wras accompanied by his wife, stepped out into the road and was struck by the car, driven by Mr. A. L. Hastedt, of 10 Fernleigh Avenue, Mount Roskill. who was coming from the city on his correct side of the road. Mr. Norton was taken by the St. John Ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, where it was found that his skull was fractured. Mr. Norton lived at 2 Hadlow Terrace. There is one child. The inquest, which was opened this morning before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., was adjourned after formal evidence of identification had been taken.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 9
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