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CAR STRIKES POST

CHILD KILLED; FOUR INJURED

FAMILY IN ACCIDENT One child died of injuries and four other members of the same family were admitted to hospital after a motor-car accident on Saturday afternoon. The child killefi wasj Graham William Lamberton, aged six years, son of Mr and Mrs William Joseph Lamberton, of 34 St. Albans street. The boy’s parents, his sister, Melva Lamberton, eight years, and his eightweeks old brother were admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. The accident happened opposite St. Andrew’s Church in Oxford terrace, about 4.15 o'clock, the car, driven by Mr Lamberton, striking a pole. It is believed that one of the tyres blew out. The car was travelling west. Graham Lamberton died at the hospital on Saturday evening. An inquest was opened before the Coroner, Mr H. P. Lawry. Melva Lamberton was reported to be seriously ill last evening, but the others injured were said to be recovering satisfactorily.

CAR PLUNGES 300 FEET

MISHAP ON SUMMIT ROAD

OCCUPANTS’ REMARKABLE ESCAPE

Four students had a remarkable escape from serious injury in the early hours of Saturday morning when a car in which they were travel'ing left the Summit road at Mount Pleasant, crashed 300 feet down a steep, rocky slope, and was completely wrecked. Only one of the four was admitted to hospital, the other three being treated as out-patients and discharged. The occupants of the car were:— Shirley Black, aged 19, of Helen Connon Hall. Miss Black, whose home is at Taumaranui. was admitted to hospital suffering from slight injuries and shock. Her condition was reported yesterday as being satisfactory. Henry Kennedy, aged 21. of College House. His home is in Timaru. Raymond Milne, aged 21, of the same address, whose home is in Ashburton. Catherine Jean Mclntyre, aged 21, of Helen Connon Hall. Her parents live at Hokitika. As the car rolled down the hillside, three of the four doors were torn off and the driver, Mr Milne, and Miss Blgck, were thrown clear about a chain before the vehicle’s final resting place. The other two occupants of the car struggled out of the wreckage, and after climbing back on to the road, sec off for the Mount Pleasant rest house, about a mile and a half distant. Miss Mclntyre covered this distance without her shoes, which had been lost in the wreckage.

About 3.45 a.m. a St. John Ambulance and a relief party were dis’patched to the scene of the accident, and Miss Black was brought to the. road on a stretcher. Mr Milne was able to make his own way to the road. The car, which was travelling towards Mount Pleasant, left the ro.ad at a bend about half a mile from the point where the Bridle Path crosses the Summit road. There is a stretch of concrete wall just before the curve, but it is not continued around the curve. At this point there is a practically sheer dron of about eight feet, where rocks have been banked un to carry the road. Below it is steen, jagged rock between patches of grass and tussock. The car plunged down this slope, and finally rolled round a massive outcrop of rock. When it came to rest it could not be seen from the road. By means of a steel cable hitched to it and passed through a pulley to a break-down truck on the road, the wrecked car. a ten horae-power English sedan, was hauled up the slope, and salvaged on Saturday morning. CAR’ AND MOTOR-CYCLE COLLIDE A man and two youths were injured in a head-on collision between a motor-car and a motor-cycle on the causeway, Redcliffs, on Saturday evening The driver of the car was Alan Vette, aged 27 years, of Loburn. Ivan Smith, aged 15 years, of “Sunleigh” Flats, Grafton street, Sumner, was driving the motor-cycle, on which Alan Gibson, of 114 Withell’s road. Upper Riccarton, was a pillion passenger.

Smith broke one of his legs and was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 9.30 p.m. Gibson was treated as an outpatient, and Vette was admitted with cuts to art arm. Smith and Vette were reported to be progressing satisfactorily last evening.

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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 8

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CAR STRIKES POST Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 8

CAR STRIKES POST Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 8