Two persons were killed and eight injured in six traffic accidents which occurred within less than three hours yesterday morning.
At 7.08 a.m. a motor lorry crashed into a tree at the corner of Mohawk Road and Avenue Edward VII as a result of which one man was killed and three other pedestrians, including a woman were injured. At 8 am. a Chinese male was knocked down by a motor truck at the inter section of Ichang and Tonquin Roads. He was conveyed to the Paulun hospital in an emergency ambulance having sustained a fractured scull.
The other fatality occurred at 8.45 am. when a Chinese pedestrian walking along Brenan Road near the intersection of Edinburgh Road, was struck by a truck and killed instantaneously Less than fifteen minutes afterwards, a truck ran into a Chinese woman at the corner of Penang and Robison Roads. An emergency ambulance was summoned and conveyed the victim to the St. Elizabeth Hospital. Her injuries were diagnosed as lacerations of the left foot, A motor-car driving along Pingliang Road near Dalny Road at 9.13, drove into a Chinese woman causing contusions of the body and lacerations of the eye-lid and arm. She was sent to the Yangtzepoo Hospital where her case was stated to be quite serious.
In the last of the series of accidents, 'a Chinese pedestrian along Honan Road, near Ningpo Road, was knocked down by a bus sustaining a crushed foot. He was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital for treatment.
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