4 Week-end Road Deaths

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 1

4 Week-end Road Deaths

Four persons died as the result of accidents on New Zealand roads at the week-end, the Press Association reports. Cars Collide A girl died in Palmerston North Hospital on Saturday after the car in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision on the Bunny-thorpe-Ashhurst road about 11.30 a.m. She was: Elizabeth Mortensen, aged 13. of Gorge road. Woodville The dead girl’s sister. Anne Mortensen, was treated and discharged. A passenger. Brian Nelson Byers, aged 24. of Kiwi street, Pahiatua, was admitted. John Hervy Slack, of Bunnythorpe, the driver of the other ear, was also admitted to hospital. Boy Dies An 11-year-old boy died after his cycle and a car collided a mile north of Taihape on Saturday afternoon. He was: i Kenneth lan Thomas, son of I Mr and Mrs K. V. Thomas,

of Bennetts siding, Taihape. Police said the accident occurred when the boy swerved out from behind a grader and was hit by an oncoming car about 4.10 p.m. He died on the way to Wanganui Hospital about 5.45 p.m. Head Injuries A man died in Auckland Hospital on Saturday from head injuries suffered in a collision between a car and a motor-cycle at the corner of Mclntyre road and Woodward avenue. Mangere, on May 14. He was: Albert Keweene Turianga, aged 58. a freezing worker, married, of 2 Seaforth avenue, Mangere. Knocked Down By Car A woman died in Green Lane Hospital last night from injuries suffered when she i was knocked down by a car in iManukau road at 8.30 p.m. on I Saturday. She was: ( elia Brockway, aged 67. mar- . ried, of 623 Manukau I road, Onehunga. 4

Killed Instantly A three-year-old boy was killed instantly when a trailer rolled on him on a farm near Manaia on Saturday. He was: Robert Benjamin James Van Kerkhoff, son of Mr W. Van Kerkhoff Upper Glen road. Manaia. Police were told the accident occurred shortly before noon when the boy was playing with other children near the trailer, which pinned him to the ground. Fonnd On Rocks A police car rushed an elderly woman. Mrs Maude Blackmore, to Wellington Hospital from Island Bay after a man saw her lying on the rocks yesterday afternoon. Mrs Blackmore, aged 74. lives in Adelaide road She was treated for shock and exposure Her condition last evening was comfortable. Police are making inquiries as to how she came to be on the rocks. An officer said she was wet through and blue with cold when found. He said she would have died in another half hour.