TWO ACCIDENTS IN BULLER GORGE
(N.Z. Press Association) NELSON, April 12. Two men were injured when a light van collided with the bank in the upper Buller gorge on Sat-
urday. Police said the van got into the ditch at the side of the road at Redjackets at 6.30 a.m. and struck the stone bank.
Stanley Murray Norris, aged 35, a bulldozer driver, of Collins street, Richmond, had two broken bones in the lower part of his left leg, and was later admitted to Nelson Hospital. He was discharged after treatment.
The driver, Maurice William Kenneth Alekna, aged 34, a driver, of Marlowe street, Stoke, suffered a scalp wound which was treated by a doctor. The van was extensively damaged. The front right-hand section of a car was almost severed when it was involved in a collision with a truck on Friday at the difficult Up-
thrust corner, in the upper Buller Gorge at 4.30 p.m. Noone was injured. The driver of the car was Maurice Reid, aged 44, an audiometrist, of Emano street, Nelson.
The truck, a maintenance vehicle owned by Highways Construction, Nelson, Ltd., was driven by Peter Wallace Brown, aged 24, a mechanic, of Stoke.
TWO ACCIDENTS IN BULLER GORGE
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 20
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