Man Killed When Ambulance Crashed

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30826, 11 August 1965, Page 1

Man Killed When Ambulance Crashed

(Now Zealand Press Association)

NAPIER, August 10.

A critically injured man who was being taken to the Napier Hospital in an ambulance, after a tractor accident, was found dead after the ambulance crashed down a bank near Tutira today.

He was William Thompson, aged about 30, an agricultural contractor, of Bay View. The ambulance driver, Newton Angove, of Napier, was admitted to the Napier Hospital with fractured ribs and shock after a second ambulance rushed to the scene of the accident. A doctor who was accompanying the injured man in the ambulance escaped with only slight injuries. The accident happened about 11.30 a.m. at a corner of the Matahoura loop road, a few minutes after the ambulance left a Tutira fann property where the contractor had been crushed by a tractor he had been operating. The injured man was found dead after the ambulance rolled down the bank and came to rest about 160 ft from the road. Man Named The man killed on the main highway near Temaunga railway crossing on Sunday morning has been named by the Mount Maunganui police. He was George Stuart Bain, of Wharf street, Tauranga. He had no known relatives in this country. Islander Dies A seriously injured Cook Islander died this morning as he was being taken to an R.N.Z.A.F. flying-boat lying off the island of Aitutaki. He was Tangi Tepaki, aged 26, who was to be flown to hospital at Suva for treatment to a fractured spine. Details of how the accident was suffered are not yet known. The flying-boat left Lauthala Bay at 10 p.m. yesterday on its mercy flight.

Capsized A Nelson truck driver died about 5 p.m. today soon after his articulated truck cab capsized between Nelson and Blenheim on the Rai saddle. He was Peter Elvery Halberg, aged 34, of 82 Quebec road, married, with two children. Police said the cab apparently climbed a bank and capsized. Mr Halberg was extricated from the crashed truck and placed in an ambulance for which an Automobile Association patrolman had radioed. • but the injured man died on . the way to hospital. i Body In Harbour The body of a 63-year-old man was found floating face down in the boat harbour at Port Nicholson today. I Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. A passer-by saw the body and telephoned the police. The body was taken to the city mortuary at the Wellington Hospital. His name has not been released as relatives overseas have to be informed. Flung 40ft A 19-year-old Brixton youth was flung 40 feet on to the roof of a parked car after a collision on the New Ply-mouth-Waitara highway today —and escaped with a broken leg. The youth. Max Vernon Martin, an apprentice electrician, landed on his head on the parked car after his motorcycle and a car collided near Smart road about 7.30 a.m. A crash helmet saved him from serious injury. Mr Martin was admitted to New Plymouth Hospital where his condition this afternoon was reported to be satisfactory.