Schoolboy Cyclist Killed

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31139, 16 August 1966, Page 16

Schoolboy Cyclist Killed

A Mt. Albert Grammar School pupil died instantly yesterday morning when he was in a collision with a truck while riding his bicycle along Point Chevalier road, Auckland. the Press Association reported. He was David Ralph Wood, aged 13, son of Mr and Mrs R. A Wood, of 38 Harbourview road, Pt. Chevalier. Driver Killed A loader driver was killed on the Parore road, north of Dargaville yesterday afternoon when his machine rolled on him. He was Neville Peter Hay, a driver ! aged 23. married, of Vic toria street. Dargaville. ■ .Man Identified The oedestnan who died! when struck by a car in Val-|

ley road. Manurewa, Auckland, about 7 p.ni. on Saturday was Roy Hunt a pensioner, of Takanini. He was identified yesterday Injured Boy Dies A boy who was injured in an accident at Ngaruawahia about a week ago, died in the Waikato Hospital on Sunday night. He was

Paul Green, aged 16, of Ngaruawahia. Up to 4 p.m. yesterday 328 traffic deaths this year had been reported to the Transport Department At this time last year the total was 367. The toll this month is 25, compared wih 23 at the same time last August Serious Condition The condition of Miss Carol Jerkovich, aged 18, of One Tree Hill, who is in Middlemore Hospital, after losing her right leg and breaking her left leg when a van hit a stone wall in Cornwall Park was serious yesterday.

The van in which she and • another girl were travelling ■ hit the Cornwall Park gate—- ; a long 20ft steel pole which was open at the time. Miss Jerkovich was trapped in the van for 30 minutes by the pole, which was driven 1 through the front of the car and into the back seat. A doctor treated her while ambulance men freed her.

Search Continues Mystery still surrounds the disappearance of two-year-old Michael Paul at Ohura, King Country, on Sunday. Nets have been placed across the Mangaroa river and a close watch has been kept on the Waitewhera and Mangakora streams which merge to form the river. Searching is continuing. Most Discharged All but two of the six members of the Joseph family, of Levin, who were admitted to Palmerston North Hospital after Sunday’s fatal car crash

three miles south of Otaki, have been discharged. Still in hospital are the mother, Mrs Marion Joseph, and Donald John Joseph, aged 12. The condition of Mrs Joseph was last night reported as “satisfactory” and that of Donald as “good.” The Josephs’ car and two south-bound cars collided. Brendon Dominic Joseph, aged nine months, died from injuries in the crash.