LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 9

LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH

THROWN FROM SIDE-CAR WANGANUI TRAGEDY fFrotn Our Own Correspondent) WANGANUI. Today. Injuries received in an accident, in which a motor-cycle and sidecar overturned at the intersection of Selwyn Crescent and Grey Street on Sunday evening, caused the death of Mavis Mitchell, aged four, shortly after her admision to the Wanganui Hospital. At the inquest opened yesterday, before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., coroner, the child’s father, Raymond Hector Mitchell, said he was riding the motorcycle along Selwyn Crescent with his daughter and her younger brother in the sidecar. He was travelling at about 15 or 20 miles an hour behind a motor-car, which was about a chain ahead of him. He could see that the car was going to turn into Grey Street and slowed down a little, reaching the intersection after the car had turned the corner. He then saw' another car a chain away coming down Grey Street toward Ingestre Street and thought it would be too risky to attempt to cross Grey Street ahead of it. He put on the brakes and when his machine had almost stopped he pulled it hard xouud to the right. The front tyre gripped the bitumen, the hack wheel lifted and the machine capsized, throwing the two children from the sidecar and pinning him to the road. The driver of the motor-car coming down Grey Street came to help him and lifted the machine clear. He got up and went to his daughter, who was unconscious and bleeding at the mouth. He picked her up and the driver the car took them both to the hospital.