ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26441, 7 June 1951, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

TAXI DRIVER FATALLf INJURED COLLISION WITH TRUCK (New Zealand Press Association) ' . GISBORNE. June <1 A man died from the head injuriffi he suffered in a head-on collision be* tween a car and a truck on the I* Karaka-Matawai highway last night He was: Mick Robins, a taxi driver, of Whata* tutu. His wife was injured and was sent to hospital in an ambulance. 'Hie car was driven by Mr Robins, with his wife as passenger. The collision with the truck occurred about , two miles on the Gisborne side of the Whatatutu turn-off. 80YEAROLD WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN (New Zealand Press Association) . HAMILTON, June «• Mrs Agnes Rhoda Bluett, aged M, was killed instantly by a goods traia on the main Frankton to Hamilton line this afternoon when she was struck on the Lake road crossing. Mrs Bluett, who lived with h* r daughter. Mrs F. Langley, in Marams street, had lunch at home with her daughter and son-in-law and then Jett to walk to Frankton for some shop; £mg. She was very deef, and 1 stepped 1 front of the train on the crossing-

TRUCKS COLLIDE BROKEN GLASS STREWN OVER STREET After a collision between a truck carrying 200 crates of bottles for th* Christchurch Milk Company and • truck of John Brightling and ComK, Ltd., with a load of bricks y**iy afternoon, broken glass Strewn over a large area of the intersection of Knowles and Cranford streets. Milk crates smashed tne windscreen of a small car that w*» passing. No one was injured.

MAN KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR A man who was knocked down by 8 9 a l. the corner of Cashel street and Oxford terrace about 8 o’clock evening was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. He is Mr»• Roland Hook, of IP Winchcombe streetLast evening his condition was «‘ ported to be satisfactory.