SAD FATALITY AT HILLSBOROUGH.
BOY RUN OVER BY MOTOR LORRY. A sad accident occurred at Hillsborough yesterday afternoon, when a young boy named Leslie Charles Taylor Upson, aged 5 years and nine months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Upson, of Egmont road, Hillsborough, was instantaneously killed by being run over by the Bell Block Dairy Company's motor lorry. i It appears that the boy was returning from school with his two brothers, aged' 7 and !) years, when the Bell Block Co.'s motor lorry passed them, travelling at the rate of about 8 miles per hour. The driver, Thomas French, on looking round immediately afterwards, saw the two older boys on the lorry, but could not see the third boy. Hearing shouting from one of the other boys, he at once stopped the lorry, and on getting out, saw the little fellow lying in the wheel track about 20 yards back. He ran back and picked the boy up, but found that he was dead, the back wheel of the lorry (which weighs about 2 tons) having passed over his head, fracturing the skull and dislocating the neck. The greatest sympathy is felt for the parents in their "sad and sudden bereavement.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 5
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202SAD FATALITY AT HILLSBOROUGH. Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 5
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