ROAD ACCIDENT DEATHS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30717, 5 April 1965, Page 1

ROAD ACCIDENT DEATHS

Three persons died during the week-end as the result of motoring accidents, all in the North Island.

A man who received severe head injuries in a collision between a car and a sheep cart near Alfredton on Wednesdaynight died in the Masterton Hospital last evening. He was D'Arcy Redstone, a farmer, married, of Karhuiti. Masterton. YOUTH KILLED A 15-year-old boy was found dead and his 18-year-old brother seriously injured after their motor-cycle careered off the New Ply-mouth-Te Kuiti road and plunged 70 feet into the Mokau river early on Saturdaymorning. The dead youth was Max Martin, aged 15. of 41 Brookes terrace, Waitara

He was a pillion passenger on the motor-cycle, which was ridden bv his brother, Mr Owen Gilbert Martin, of 554 Mangorei road. New’ Plymouth. The condition of Mr Owen Martin, who was taken by am-

bulance to New Plymouth Hospital was described last night as “quite satisfactory.”-

CAR HITS POLE

A young woman died and five other young persons were injured, one seriously, at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday when their car failed to take a bend near Parakai, hit a power pole, bounced off a fence and came to rest in a ditch. The dead girl was:

Margaret Anne Shead. aged 16. daughter of Mr and Mrs K. F. S. Shead, 9 Oregon avenue, Avondale.

Sheryl Clarke, aged 17, of S Torrington crescent, Glen Innes, was seriously injured. She was admitted to Middlemore Hospital with a fractured skull. HIT BY TRAIN

Almost completely squashed on one side, a late-model car was a complete write-off after a collision with a northbound goods train on the York road railway crossing between Midhirst and Waipuku at 4.35 p.m. on Saturday. The driver. 78-year-old Mr Lachlan Gillanders. of Stratford, escaped with cuts and abrasions and a fractured collarbone. There were no passengers in the car. The train was delayed for about 20 minutes It had been climbing a fairly steep gradient and was travelling between about 25 and 30 miles an hour. SERIOUSLY HURT

A young Wellington motorist was seriously injured in j an accident six miles north of Waiouru about 1.45 p.m. yesterday. He was Peter Grayson Brackenridge, aged 20. of Glenmore street, Wellington, w-ho was admitted to Wanganui Hospital suffering from a fractured spine. The car he''was driving overturned on the Desert road.

Mr Brackenridge was taken to the Waiouru military camp hospital where he was

treated before being transferred to Wanganui by army ambulance. FUMES IN CAR

Five children, three from Milton and two from Balclutha, were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and discharged from the Dunedin Public Hospital on Saturday morning.

The children were passengers in a car driving from Milton to Dunedin.

They were Barbara, aged 3. Robin, aged 5, and Maurice John, aged 14. and Vivian Grace, aged 4, and Susan Mary Lloyd, aged 8. FOUR INJURED Four persons were hurt when a near-new car hurtled off Bluff road at Clifton at 2.40 a.m. yesterday and landed on its roof across a road 20 feet down a steep bank. Three of the five persons in the car admitted to Invercargill Hospital were:—

Rion William Stalwick. aged 17, of Chelmsford street, Invercargill (facial cuts and concussion. condition satisfactory): Patricia Beatrice Roberts. aged 19. a student nurse, of Dee street Maternity Hospital (severe lacerations to the head, satisfactory): Arthur William Manson, aged 30. of 79 Crawford street, Invercargill (concussion, suspected broken jaw and lacerations, satisfactory): Garry Griffiths, aged 27. married with a family. of 16 Pine crescent Invercargill (lacerations to the face, treated and discharged).

PRESIDENT Johnson, in his first public statement on the use of gas in Vietnam, said he wished there was as much concern about American soldiers dying as with eyes that watered a little bit.

Churchill Fund.—A spokesman for. the Canadian Churchill memorial aw'ards said the appeal would begin in Canada on May 8 and continue until November 30. the birthday of the late Sir Winston Churchill.—(Toronto, April 4.) I