ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3173, 20 March 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES,

SERIOUS BUCGY ACCIDENT.

LADY HAS HER LEG BROKEN

A serious buggy accident occurred on the Pouawa road on Saturday, which resulted in Mrs R. Fitzgerald having her leg broken. It appears that Mr and Mrs R. Fitzgerald, with two lady friends, were driving to town in a buggy, when one of the horses got- its tail over the reins and knocked them out of Mr Fitzgerald's hands. He tried to recover them, but was unsuccessful, and the horses bolted. On reaching a cutting the buggy turned completely over and the occupants were thrown heavily on to the roadway. Mrs Fitzgerald' had her leg broken and Mr Fitzgerald ’received a cut on the face which required to be stitched. The other two ladies received minor injuries.

Mrs Fitzgerald was taken to a private hospital yesterday, and is progressing as favourably as can be expected. A JOCKEY INJURED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! PAEROA, March IS. • At the Paeroa races yesterday Reid, rider of Dudeen in the Maiden Hurdles, was seriously injured by that horse falling. MINER KILLED INSTANTANE- * OUSLY. WESTPORT, March IS. A miner, William Young, was killed in the Westport Coal Co.’s Mangatina. mine yesterday. He was having crib time, when a lump of coal became detached from the roof, and fell on him, killing him instantaneously. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. WESTPORT, March 19. Mr Michael Williams, president of the Westport Labour Union, a widower with a family of five, attended the races yesterday, and this morning was picked up on the side of the line between the racecourse and Westport, with a gash on the back of his head and a scar on the forehead. He died in the hospital this afternoon. It is not known whether he fell off a train or was lcnocked oyer by a passing train. -