Killed When Car Hit Group

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30273, 12 April 1965, Page 1

Killed When Car Hit Group

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 11.

A man was killed and five others narrowly escaped death when a car drove into a group of people in Mount Albert road, Auckland, early this morning. The group included two policemen investigating two earlier accidents at the same spot.

One of the policemen. Con stable M. R. Fisk, was struck in the stomach and legs by the dead man as the car hurtled past. The dead man’s name has not yet been released as the police are still attempting to locate his relatives. A native of Scotland, he was aged 53 and lived in Onehunga. One man leaped inside a police patrol car to safety and others flattened themselves against it. The car was parked beside the kerb. “If he had come another six inches closer I think he would have got the lot of us,” said Constable Fisk. Constable Fisk and Constable J. E. Turner were called to the scene shortly after 2 am

Near the intersection of Mount Albert road and Pah road two cars had collided. There was little damage and no injury. As one of the drivers, Cedric Walter Donnelly, of 53 O'Donnell avenue, Mount Roskill, crossed the road toward the other vehicle just after the accident he was hit by a third car.

The police patrol arrived soon after and Mr Donnelly was sent to hospital with shock and a sprained ankle. He was treated and discharged. Constables Fisk and Turner were completing their inquir ies on the spot at 2.45 a.m when the fatality occurred. Constable Fisk said he was getting ready to go and was holding the driver’s door of the patrol car open. He had just been talking on the radiotelephone. “One of the drivers in the other accident yelled ‘Look out’, and I saw a car approaching,” he said. "The deceased must have been a couple of inches out than the rest of us.

“I was kicked in the stomach, ankle and thigh, probably by his body, as the car went past," said Constable Fisk. The car stopped some distance away.

- Died lu Collision A young man was killed at a.m. on Saturday when his “ motor-scooter and a car collid- [ ed on the corner of Gillies ' avenue and Whitfield drive, Auckland. He was i Douglas Graham Ewing, aged I 22, a university student,' ; of 17 Grafton road, AuckI land. ' Canoeist Missing • A canoe used by Leslie Owen Thomson, aged 19, of Foxton road. Levin, on the I Manawatu river on Saturday > afternoon was later found 200 yards west of the Whirokina ; bridge. Searches by boat and i on foot have failed to find any trace of him. I Pedestrians Die j A young woman was killed by a car as she crossed the i Great South road at Takanini , early on Saturday night. She I , was I Miss Mavis Bessie Ngalai,|

11 aged 23, of 11 Taka street, ’ Takanini. ■| A man was killed by a car ’ as he was crossing the road Jat Portland, Northland, on Saturday afternoon. He was William Walter Tito, aged 63. of Otaika. > Mr Tito was crossing the s road from one car to another : when he was struck by a third I car.