ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR CAR SMASH. Per £rcss Association. Palmerston N., Last Might. While Mr George Green, a well-known ilaxmill owner, was motoring out. Irom (Palmerston' to Ityxton W-day he tclt ill, and endeavored to attract-attention of another passing car. They did not realise what was the matter, however. Green fainted, and his car plunged over the road into the Mangaone creek; a dive of 17 feet, breaking the nrxlge protections on its way. There was very little water in the creek, and the car was badly smashed, Green escaping with a shaking and cuts on his face. [Mr Green's wife is at present visiting friends in New Plymouth.] TRAIN AND TRAM ACCIDENTS. Auckland, Last Night. A young man named Alfred Boyle, employed on the permanent way by the Railway Department, was brought into Auckland from Tuakau, in the Waikalo, (last evening, suffering from a severe scalp wound. He had a narrow escape from death. He was working on the line, when a train came along, and he for some reason stepped back partly on the line, 'being knocked down by the train.

A man named Louis_ Pen-in, of Wellesley street, stepped (iff a tram car in Queen street last night a"d met with an accident which resulted in bis having his right foot taken off. RUN OVER AND KIOLEl) Auckland, Saturday Liu-illa. I!*ise Hutchinson, five years old, daughter of Mr. W. <!. Hutchinson, grocer, of Karangahake road, fell under tih(< feel, of a horse attached to a i timber waggon. One wheel passed over her cfliest, causing injuries' from which' she died an hour later.