Scooters Collide With Duck, Car, Foxy Dog

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 14

Scooters Collide With Duck, Car, Foxy Dog

' ' '• ■■ ■■ ‘ - Au 18« year-old typist, Miss Dianne Evans, of j\ntrim street, was seriously injured when she was hit by a flying dude when riding her motor-scooter in Norwich street last evening. Miss Evans Was taken to die Princess Margaret Hospital suffering from head, arm and leg injuries. Her condition was later reported to be fair. ;

It was the third and most serious accident involving motorscooter riders within six hours in Christchurch yesterday. A dog was the cause of the first one, and a car and scooter collided in the second. The flying duck struck Miss Evans in darkness. Norwich street is less than half a mile from the Avon river, a duck sanctuary. Miss Evans crashed to the

ground. The duek lay under her scooter, killed by the impact \ 1 . Mr B. Prendergast, a university student of 101 Stanbury avenue, was riding his brand-new motor-scooter along Barrington street near the corner of Athelstan street at 1.50 p.m. when a dog ran in his path, ■ • Mr Prendergast flew 15ft through the air and landed head-first on to the rbad after the collision, according to witnesses. ’■ • ■ ''

“Luckily, he was wearing s crash helmet—it had deei;t seore-toarks on it,” said Mr G. T, Pender, a grocer bn the corner. “The student climbed groggily to his feet The dog, a foxy type, limped away yelping,” Mr Pender said. The student was very shaken. “We sat him on a butter-box, but then he wilted,” Mr Pender said. , ; Mr Prendergast was treated

for abrasions and suspected concussion, after being taken to the Christchurch Hospital, by ambulance, and was later' allowed home. The dog was: treated .by a veterinary surgeon and allowed to be taken home... Its owners -did pot know until after it had "been’ taken to the vet' that it had been .involved in an accident. A-St. John Ambulance Brigade nurse, Miss Rosemarie MOGarva, of 28 Milton , street, was involved in‘the second accident.: Her motor-scooter and a car collided at the interi section bf Moorhouse avenue arid Colombo street at 7.15 pun.

Miss McGarva suffered arm abrasions and a bruised temple: A .St John ambulance was called but the nurse said she was all right. Later, Miss McGarva’s father took.her to the hospital, and she was discharged after treatment ’ "