TWO MEN KILLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 196, 2 June 1930, Page 4

TWO MEN KILLED.

ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. LORRY GOES OVER BANK. (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, June 1. ' Two men were killed, one seriously injured, and one slightly injured, when a motor truck went off the road in the vicinity of Waikari, and- fell down a hundred-foot bank to the creek bed below on Saturday afternoon. The victims were: Killed. Mr Alexander Mclntosh, aged about 45, a farmer of Putorino, married, with six children. Mr William Johnston, aged 25', a farm labourer of Putorino, whose parents reside in Dannevirke. Injured. Mr A. E. Porter, a farmer of Putorino, seriously injured. He was conveyed to me rsapier Hospital. Mr V. J." Barry, a farmer, of Putorino, bruises and siiocKi. He was aole to proceed to his home.

Mr Porter was the driver ol the lorry. The party were returning from a meeting of tne Domain Board, or which Mr Barry is chairman. Half a mile after leaving Waikari, on the Napier-Wairoa roau, at a cutting considered dangerous because the driver’s view is obstructed, they met a car driven by Mr Holden, an employee at the Koutemaori tunnel. Mr Porter liacl the inside running, and it appeared that the vehicles had room to pass. Mr Holden’s car, however, grazed the rear of the truck, and impact turned the truck’s nose toward the hunk, over which it ran beforo Mr Porter could gain control. It turned over several tiyies before landing on its wheels in a creek bed. Mr Mclntosh and Mr Johnston suffered, fractured skulls. Mr Barry, who was riding oil the back of the lorry, was thrown off early and escaped lightly. Mr Porter was picked up from under tlie lorry.