STRUCK BY CAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 6

STRUCK BY CAR

MAN FATALLY INJURED NEAR WAVERLEY •» — SISTER-IN-LAW IN SERIOUS CONDITION. CHILD IN PUSHCHAIR UNHURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, April 12. Two pedestrians were struck by a motor-car on the main Wanganui-New Plymouth highway, a mile north of Waverley, at 4.30 p.m. today. One died while being taken to Patea Hospital, and the other was admitted to hospital in a serious condition. A three-year-old child being wheeled in a pushchair escaped injury. The victims were: — Killed. William Ellis, single, aged 27, a labourer, employed by the Petone Borough Council. Injured. , Mrs Hilda Ellis, Waverley, aged < about 32, a sister-in-law, of Mr Ellis; severe wound in the head and concussion; condition serious. Mr Ellis arrived at Waverley by ser- . vice car at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, intending to spend a week’s holiday with his orother, who lives at the Waverley racecourse, and works for Bremer Brothers. He was met by Mrs Ellis, who had with her her three-year old daughter in a pushchair. Mr and Mrs Ellis were walking outward from Waverley, on the way home, and a mile north of the township, they were overtaken by a car. The sun was low in the west at the time, and glaring. Mr and Mrs Ellis were struck by the car, but the child, in the pushchair escaped. Mr Ellis, whose head and back were severely injured, died before the ambulance reached Patea Hospital; his sister-in-law was admitted in a serious condition.