STRUCK BY FIRE ENGINE
MAN FATALLY INJURED. TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 14. Struck by a fire engine on its way to answer a malicious false alarm, a man was fatally injured as he was crossing a road in the city shortly alter 8 o’clock on Saturday night. The victim was Joe Kostanich, a Dalmatian fisherman, married, aged 42, of Helcnsville. Two fire engines were dispatched from Central Station to answer a call to an alarm box. As they were travelling down Hobson Street, the first machine pulled out to pass a private car. A fireman on the engine said they saw Kostanich and a friend step oil the kerb. The friend caught Kostanich by the arm. but his grasp was brushed off and Kostanich continued to walk across the street. When struck by the engine. Kostanich was carried for a distance of 20 yards.
The engine, stopped momentarily, leaving one man behind to render first aid, and then proceeded to its call, which was found to have been made maliciously. \
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 7
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