SERIOUS ACCIDENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 24 December 1912, Page 5

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

ON NEWMAN-NiTREAHA ROAD, j CHILD SUSTAINS FRACTURE OF SKULL. 'A trap accident, which had serious nresults, occurred en Sunday afternoon on the Newman-Ni realm road. Mr and Mrs Nelson Ranger, with their three young children, were returning | from a visit to relatives at Nirenh.v. j Mr .Ranger /was driving a. young horse j attached to a dogcart, and whtvi up a cutting, the horse ?hieri Slit a white perambulator, which was being pushed along the road. The li'orse commenced to back towards the embankment, and Mr Ranger jumped out. to £0 to its head, but i»fore, he could got. there one wheel went over the steep bank, and the vehicle, with, the occupants, was •capsized, and with llio liorso rolled down the bank until stopped, bv n fence, about twelve feet below the road. Help was quickly tn hand, and Mrs Ranger was recovered from a perilous position under the hor.se, which was kicking wildly. Beyond a severe bruising ami ■shaking she was uninjured. A little three-year-old girl was picked up with a severe •wornml on her forehead, as if from a ikick from tho horse. Sho was quite unconscious; The older girl escaped with a few bruises and contusions. 'An infant boy, snugly wrapped up in a suit case, Avas picked up uninjured. The whole family waj< taken over to Mr T. Moss' .homestead, and given •every attention. Dr Jamie-son. who was telephoned lor. was promptly in Attendance, and pronounced the little :girl to be suffering from a fractured skull. Tho trap was considerably tfamaged, both Shafts being broken, and the horse was a. good deal knocked about. This is tho third accident; that haa occurred in this particular locality, and the local authority should, it is thought, take measures to secure the. safety of the travelling t»u' lie.