TRUCK STRIKES POLE
Death Of Prominent Timaru Farmer
Daughter Seriously Injured
Mr Thomas Hicks Ivey, a well-known farmer of Kingsdown, near Timaru died as the result of injuries received when the truck he was driving struck an electric light pole near the Pleasant Point township at 6.15 p.m. yesterday. His daughter, Miss Mona Ivey, who was a passenger in the truck, was admitted to the Timaru Public Hospital suffering from serious head injuries and a broken jaw.
At the time of the accident Mr Ivey was returning from the Mackenzie show, where he was a successful exhibitor in the light horse classes. The truck left the road and struck the electric light pole at the intersection of the Main Highway and Russell Street, about half a mile on the Timaru side of Pleasant Point. Mr Ivey was rendered unconscious by the impact and died about 15 minutes later.
Miss Ivey was reported by the hospital authorities late last night to be very seriously ill.
Mr Ivey was widely known as a successful farmer with a particular interest in horses. For many years he competed with conspicuous success in the light horse classes at A. and P. Shows in South Canterbury and Canterbury, and many of his animals were familiar features of the show ring. His interests extended also to trotting and he was for a great many years a member of the Timaru Trotting Club, serving for a long term as a member of the committee. He was well-known as an owner of trotting horses and several of his horses were prominent performers on the track. Two of Mr Ivey’s sons are overseas with the N.Z.E.F. -Timaru Herald, 15/4/1941.
SECOND DEATH
Accident At Pleasant Point
INQUESTS OPENED
Mona Florence Shirley Ivey, aged 13, died in the Timaru Public Hospital at 3-10 a.m., yesterday as the result of injuries received in an accident on the Main Highway at Pleasant Point on Monday evening. The girl was a passenger in a truck driven by her father, Thomas Hicks Ivey, who died am Injuries shortly after a collision with an electric light pole occurred. Miss Ivey was suffering severe cerebral injuries and a broken jaw.
Inquests in both cases were opened yesterday before the coroner (Mr C. W. Wood) and adjourned after evidence of identification was given by Jack Sydney Ivey. -Timaru Herald, 16/4/1941.
FUNERALS
IVEY — The friends of Mrs T. H. Ivey are respectfully informed that the funeral of her late husband, Thomas Hicks and her late daughter, Mona Florence Shirley, will leave her residence Kingsdown, This Day (Wednesday, April 16), at 2.30 p.m. for St. Peter's Church and thence to the Timaru Cemetery. Requiem at St. Peter's Church at 10 a.m. -Timaru Herald, 16/4/1941.
INQUEST OPENED
DOUBLE FATALITY
An Inquest was opened yesterday afternoon into the circumstances of the death of Thomas Hicks Ivey, farmer, of Kingsdown, aged 59, and his daughter, Mona Florence Shirley Ivey, aged 15, who died as the result of injuries received when the truck, which Mr Ivey was driving on their return from the Mackenzie A. and P. Show on April 14. 1941, ran into an electric pole at Pleasant Point about 6.15 p.m. The Coroner, Mr C. W. Wood, presided. Sergeant J. C. Crowley represented the police and Mr M. A. Raymond appeared on behalf of the relatives. Medical evidence was taken and the inquest adjourned until May 14.
Dr J. C. McKenzie, superintendent of the Timaru Public Hospital, said that Mona Florence Shirley Ivey was admitted at 7 p.m. on April 14 suffering from a broken jaw and cerebral laceration. There was a scalp wound on the back of the skull. She did not regain consciousness, but sank and died at 3.10 a.m. on April 15 as the result of these injuries.
Dr J. L. McIver, who had been instructed to conduct a post-mortem examination, gave details of the severe injuries suffered by Thomas Hicks Ivey. There were multiple fractures of the second, third and fourth ribs on the left side, and on the right side the second to the eighth ribs were fractured, with a penetrating wound on the inside of the dorsal part of the lower chest wall. The abdominal organs had been severely injured. In his opinion death was caused by gross injury to the abdominal organs resulting from the accident, and from the appearances of the organs, it was clear that death was directly the result of and exclusively due to the injuries suffered during the accident. -Timaru Herald, 6/5/1941.
IN MEMORIAM
IVEY — In loving memory of my father. Thomas Hicks, who passed away April 14, 1941, and also my sister, Mona, who passed away April 15, 1941. Result of an accident.
The call was sudden, the shock severe; We little thought the end was near;
But only those who have lost can tell The sorrow of parting without farewell.
— Inserted by Emma and Doxon. -Timaru Herald, 14/4/1942.
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