ACCIDENT TOLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 5

ACCIDENT TOLL.

| ONLY FOUR DEATHS. |few dominion casualties. I tour pernors were willed in accident* jduring the four day«« of the- Easier .holiday? in the Dominion. Injuries of a • fairly serious nature totalled only Hi. j This i« the lowest accident toll n\cr the holiday period for some considerable (time, comparing very favourably with jthe la't two years. Daring Kast<-r. IJI4O, jll people were killed and 21 injured, ■and in the previous year 1" were killed ,jand 59 injured. j. Only two of the deaths arose out of | road accident*. the. low total probably being due in large nif-asiirc- to the effect .jof ]K*trol re-trictions o?_ jnot<ir traffic. ■ There i« aUo evidence that di h :» .i generally have Wen taking more cjre • on the road. ■ j The two road latalitie« occurred in IjChristchurcli and Timaru. w ber* !a cyclist was -truck by a car and 'ia farmer's truck collided with a '| telegraph pole, respectively. The. other ! tff o ca*«w occurred when a bov touched a power ]iu<- in Ha-tins- and was electrocuted. .in.! a train]*-! Wt hi- font in; when climbing M»,unt Kgmont and -lid ' down the niiiiiiii.iin-idiv The table !.(•!,.«• '•(•1 - rwtt the natire '.of the accident - re-nit ing i n deallt during the la-t three Master bolidav periods:— '! 5941 I*4o :»3» ■ Collisions . 2 4 « (Cars over banks o 1 s i Pedestrians hit by cars o •> ; iLerel crossing smashes o jo Drominjs 0 i 3 : Other causes 2 2 4 Totals 4 ]7 IT for the four <ia\s <-onjine.'uiijg <.n i }-riday. lli ut-i'- lepo't'.-if to ha\e been injure' and admitted !■. hospital in a fairly -cijmi- •-onditii<n. I I" « >111" W'!«- r-Utfi 1 )!)'_- lr«it!i illj'irie- 'a'l-cd • by falls of \ariou- kind-, tine'- j*-i-••!)-f w ere injured in a collision at Hastings ?'on Friday, and in two other motor '•vehicle- were involved. Auckland csca )>ed with reinarkablT itew eerious accidents this jcar.