COLLISIONS AT WAIMATE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 13

COLLISIONS AT WAIMATE

Eleven Injured In Three Accidents

(From Our Ou-n Reporter) WAIMATE, February 11.

Allan Robb, of 91 Springfield road, Christchurch, was taken by private car to the Timaru Hospital after a collision between his car and one owned by James Bernard Flanagan, of 26 Barclay place. Shirley. Robb's car skidded in loose shingle, veered to the opposite side of the road and hit Flanagan's vehicle as it left a bridge at Horse Shoe bend, Otaio. at 6.40 p.m. on Saturday. Flanagan, his wife. Dorothy Eleanor Flanagan, and Robb's passenger, Neil Shackel. escaped with minor abrasions.

Near Morven at 840 p m a rental car driven by Peter Charles Fraser, of 24 Woodlaugh street. Dunedin, went out of control and struck a pole. Fraser and his passengers. Monique Christine Wormaid. of 33 Grand View’ crescent. Dunedin. Kaye Lynette Ladigan. of 460 George street. Dunedin, and Laurence William Walls, of Stirling, were all conveyed to the Waimate Hospital by the- St. John ambulance.

No sooner had the ambulance returned to its depot when a call was received to a head-on collision on Timaru road about four miles north of Waimate. A car believed to be driven by Kevin Blackwood, of Toronto street Gore, collided with a car driven by Allan Frederick Colman, of 19 Evans street. Timaru. Blackwood. Pauline McAllan, Shirley Margaret Griffiths, of Gore. Robert Donald Kent, of Oamaru. passengers in the first vehicle, and Colman and his wife. Mairi Morag Colman, were all admitted to the Waimate Hospital. Blackwood, who was more seriously injured, was transferred from the Waimate Hospital to the Timaru Hospital in the early hours of Sunday.