ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A BOY KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. A schoolboy named Thomas Isaac Butcher, aged six years, was so severely injured as the result of an accident opposite Hastings Stree.t School shortly after noon to-day that he died just after being admitted to the Napier Hospital, .to which institution he was immediately conveyed. Deceased war hanging on to the rear of a motor lorry, and suddenly ran out into the road right in front of a passing motor car, which was being driven by Miss K. Speedy, of Waipawa. The lorry and car were proceeding in the Opposite directions, land the lad ran froni behind .the lorry just as the car passed, and the car could not stop in time to miss the boy, who put his hand out on the mudguard in an effort to stop, but the car threw him to the ground in front of it, the car passing over one wrist. Death was probably caused from a fracture caused by, the fgli, bxoM&t will fa held,
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1919, Page 5
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174ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1919, Page 5
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