Tragedy of The Road – Denaby Miner Run Over by Trackless Car

September 1916

Mexborough and Swinton Times September 23, 1916

Tragedy of The Road
Denaby Miner Run Over by Trackless Car

A distressing Street fatality at Denaby has been reported to the police. A man named Thomas Murphy (38), of 14 Annerley Street being on Wednesday night run over by a trackless tramcar and killed on the spot.

From the police report it appears that he left his lodgings at 6.30, informing a fellow lodger named John Garrity that he was going for a walk. About 10 o’clock he was found drunk, so it is stated, in Doncaster Road, New Conisborough, by Daniel Connell and Fred Willis, miners. This is same for a short way until he became abusive, when they left him at the bottom of Loversal Street, about 40 yards from where he was found dead.

Clement Glew, a tram driver, of 4, Doncaster Road was driving a trackless car at 10.10 pm when he saw the deceased lying in the road with his back towards the car. He was unable to pull up in time, and the car ran over him. He says he did not see the man until he was on top of him, and he pulled up within a yard or two. When he got off the car he found the deceased was dead.

The body was removed to the Fullerton hospital and examined by Dr MacArthur. There were internal injuries and a fracture of the skull.