YOUNG CYCLIST'S DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1058, 23 August 1930, Page 16

YOUNG CYCLIST'S DEATH

FATAL CRASH INTO LORRY FAMILY'S MISFORTUNES Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. As a result of a collision between a motor-lorry and a bicycle at the intersection of Hanson and Hall Streets, Wellington South, about flve o'clock this evening, George Allan Turnbull, aged 17 years, a telegraph messenger, was so severely injured that he died while being taken to the Public Hospital. The boy was riding down hill along Hall Street when he collided with a lorry belonging to T. A. Wells. Limited, oil and colour merchants, Vivian Street, and driven by Albert Edward Collins. The boy received severe injuries to the head, and also received abrasions to his arms and legs. He was a son of Mr. John James Turnbull. Farnham Street, Mornington. Some eight years ago Mr. Turnbull lost another son in tragic circumstances. Tn company with a man named Thomas, Philip Henry Turnbull, aged 23 years, was engaged in excavating a building section in Balfour Road, Mornington, when the bank began to move and he was killed by a fall of earth. Mr. Thomas’s two children were caught by the falling earth, but were practically uninjured. George Turnbull, who was killed today, narrowly escaped being killed about six years ago, when he was knocked down by a motor-car in Newtown, receiving severe internal injuries. For about two years he was in hospital, and had not long recovered.