DRIVER KILLED IN COLLISION

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27642, 26 April 1955, Page 12

DRIVER KILLED IN COLLISION

WIFE AND BABY SON BADLY INJURED TWO (OTHERS ALSO SENT TO HOSPITAL

(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 25. A young married man was killed, his wife and their baby son were seriously injured, and their small daughter and another man were also injured in a collision between two cars at the Rugby road subway on the New Ply-mouth-Stratford highway on Saturday about 7.45 p.m. The two cars, one of which landed on its side on top of a four-foot high bank, were wrecked. The man killed was: Robert Edward Williams, aged 23, of Croydon road, Waipuku. His wife, Joyce Eleanor Williams, and their son, Stephen, about 12 months old, were seriously injured. Their daughter, Anne, aged about 4, and the driver of the other vehicle, Donald Henry Harris, of Standish street, Inglewood, were also injured. All the injured were taken to the New Plymouth Public Hospital. Their condition is reported to be satisfactory. There were no eye-witnesses of the accident. Mr Williams and his family were travelling south in a light car. Mr Harris is believed to have been travelling in the opposite direction.

SEVEN PERSONS , INJURED

CARS IN HEAD-ON COLLISION (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 25. Seven persons were admitted to the Rotorua Public Hospital after a headon collision between two cars on the Rotorua-Taupo highway today. The injured are:—Mrs Marjorie Gore, aged 42, of Kopane, near Palmerston North, fractured leg; Graham Gore, aged 13, concussion and head injuries: Jennifer Gore, aged six, head injuries; Robert Tweedie McCarhill, aged 25, of Tauranga, fractures to both upper arms; Joseph Ambrose Harrington, aged 28, of Tauranga, fractured wrist; Miss Gale Cameron, aged 20, of Tauranga, fractured arm and leg; Miss Margaret Graylynn, aged 17, of Oripi. near Tauranga, concussion.

THREE INJURED

CAR SKIDS AND ROLLS OVER (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 25. Three persons were injured when a car skidded and rolled over on its roof on the Rotorua-Whakatane highway today. Those admitted to the Rotorua Public Hospital were:—Harold Alexander Reid, aged 21, of Pahiatua, burns and possible back injuries; Miss Barbara Rush, aged 20. of Napier, injuries to the nose and a broken rib: James Harris Russell Browne, aged 18, of Rotoiti. a broken rib. CAR PASSENGER KILLED COLLISION WITH BUS (New Zealand Press Association) WAIPUKURAU, April 25. One man was killed, and another severely injured when a car collided head-on with a bus at Otane, on the main highway between Hastings and Waipukurau, about 6.30 p.m. on Friday. The man killed was Royce Edward Freer, aged 32, married, an engineer, of Barton avenue. Napier.

Charles James Parker, aged 35, married, of Charles street, Westshore, Napier, was admitted to the Waipukurau Public Hospital with severe head injuries. Mr Parker was driving north in heavy rain, and had pulled out to pass a parked vehicle, when the accident occurred. None of the 12 passengers in the bus, nor the driver, was injured. The car was wrecked.

PEDESTRIAN FATALLY INJURED KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 25. A man who was knocked down by; a car on the Lakefront road, Taupo, on Friday night, died just after he was admitted to the Rotorua Public Hospital. He was Joseph Vernon Dixon, aged 82, of Taupo. MOTOR-CYCLIST IN COLLISION A motor-cyclist, Mr George Glover, of 8 Dixons crescent, was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital on Saturday evening at 7 o’clock after a collision with a car on the Main South Road at Sockburn. His condition last evening was reported to be satisfactory. CYCLIST INJURED After he had been involved in a collision with a motor-cycle on Marshland road, a cyclist, Mr Laurie Sherw’ood, of 81 Sherborne street, was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital at 645 p.m. on Saturday. He was discharged from hospital yesterday.