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Accident in Doncaster Road

November 1927

Sheffield Independent – Friday 04 November 1927

While playing on the roadside in Doncaster road, Mexborough, last night, Leonard Fletcher (5), son of Mr. Leonard Fletcher, miner, Clayfield road, Mexborough, was knocked down by a motor lorry and received severe injuries to the skull and body.

He was removed to the Montagu Hospital in critical condition.

 

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 07 November 1927

At an inquest at Mexborough on Saturday on Leonard Fletcher (7), of 13, Clayfield Road, Mexborough, who on Thursday night was knocked down by motor-lorry, a verdict of Accidental death was recorded.