WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 6

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

FATALLY SHOT YOUNG WOMAN KILLED GUN FALLS FROM CAR (Special to Tlmea) PUKEftOHE, Sunday Falling through the reax doorway of a car un to the road, a loaded shotgun discharged. Miss Phyllis Marian Pinfold (2<J), of Newmarket, being struck in the chest and thxoaL She was killed Instantly.

Miss Pinlold was one of a party which left Auckland yesterday morning to spend a day in the oourjry and do some shooting. The shotgun lay fairly close to the inside of the left-hand rear door, with its butt at the foot of the panelling behind the front seat, and the muzzle pointed upward toward the back window. The gun was loaded in both barrels. The party drew up outside a servloe station on the Great South Road at Ramarama and after Mr E. B. Brlnton. a passenger in the car. Jumped out, the gun fell on to the road. The safety catch became unfastened, and the gun discharged, the bullet striking Miss Pinfold.

TRAIN STRIKES CAR

PARTY’S AMAZING ESCAPE RAILING PREVENTS CAPSIZB (Special to Times.) GREYMOUTH, Sunday Four persons experienced a miraculous escape from death when the or in which they were travelling all struck almost head-on by a train % tile Ngahere end of the Blackball combined rail and traffic bridge about 7 o'clock last night. The driver of the car was Mr Michael Joseph Walsh, of W&taroa, South Westland. With him in the front seat was his wife, while in the hack seat were their infant daughter and Mr Walsh's brother, Mr Jack Walsh.

As a result of the impact the oar was thrown against a bridge railing, which snapped off and was forced through the back of the vehicle near tlie child. Mrs Walsh was in the act of reaching back to secure the child and was struck a glancing blow on the side of the head, but her injury was not serious. The child escaped unhurt. The car was extensively damaged bv the impact, but the fact that it was pierced by the railing saved it from capsizing into the Grey River below.

MOTOR-CYCLISTS injured

TWO ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL

Severe lacerations to an arm were received by Mr John White, a fruiterer, of Te Rapa, on Saturday evening, when a motor-cycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a lorry owned by Messrs Grinter Brothers, and driven by Mr A. Middleton. He was taken to the Waikato Hospital in a St. John Ambulance. Mr Frederick Charles Poeock, of Harding Street, Auckland, was also admitted to the Waikato Hospital on Saturday when he was thrown frocn his motor-cycle on the Great South Road near Te Kauwhata and suffered a fracture of the right leg and facial abrasions.

FALL FROM LADDER

RAILWAY WORKER SUCCUMBS (By Telegraph.— Press Association) DUNEDIN, Sunday Falling 13 feet to a concrete floor from a ladder at the Hillside workshops yesterday morning, Mr John Reid, married, residing at Roslyn, Dunedin, received head injuries from which he died at the Dunedin Hospital about nine o'clock this morning.

RIGHT ARM LOST

FORMER LABOUR CANDIDATE Hurled around a pulley when hi* hand was caught in the belting, Mr Ernest Plggott (58). married, of Buckland, had his right arm torn off when adjusting machinery in a sawmill at Buckland on Saturday. Mr Piggott, who is a well-known farmer in the Franklin district, was the unsuccessful Labour candidate for the Franklin seat at the last general election. His condition is serious.

SOUTH ROAD BMASH

INJURIES TO MOTOR-CYCLISTS Mr Henry Ernest Manning (27), single, a carpenter, of Mount Eden, received lacerations 1 0 ilie face, fractured arm and shock and John Frederick Rowland (19), single, a carpenter, of Titirangi. a fractured skull and left thigh when the motor-cycle on which they were riding collided with a car driven by Mr A. Veart, of Mount Eden, on ttie Great South Road at Rcmuera oil Saturday evening.

MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZES

Seaman Woods

Petty-officer Alexander , single, received fairly

serious head injuries and lacerations when the ear in which he was travelling capsized at Takapuna on Saturday afternoon. Stoker Petty-officer Robert Gwillam suffered lacerations, being discharged after treatment