Killed In Power-pole Crash

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31399, 19 June 1967, Page 3

Killed In Power-pole Crash

(N.Z. Press Association) TIMARU, June 18.

A young woman was killed instantly and her fiance was injured when the car she was driving left the road near Albury, in South Canterbury, early this morning.

The car hit a double concrete power pole. The dead woman was

Mary-Ann Nelson, aged 21, a cook, of Lake Ohau lodge.

She was a daughter of Mr R. Nelson, Hanmer Springs. The injured man, who is in the Timaru public hospital with head injuries and facial lacerations, is Mr Laurence Ramsay, of 27 Oxford street Timaru. His condition is reported to be satisfactory. The accident occurred shortly after 4 a.m. near the intersection of Camp Valley road and Chamberlains road at Albury. Miss Nelson was attempting to negotiate a turn when her car left the road and crashed into the poles. Children Dead

i An Auckland Press AssociI ation message says that two young children died and five other people were injured—two seriously—after a car travelling on the north-bound lane of the southern motorway crashed into the back of a coal truck, near Manurewa, on Saturday morning. The children who died i were ' ' Margaret Michelle Lawrence, aged two months, of 1 Bushland Place, Papakura. She died in the ambulance on the way to Middlemore hospital. ’ Kerry Patricia Lawrence, aged two. She died in Auckland hospital this afternoon. The driver of the car, Mrs Shirley Ann Lawrence, aged 31, is in a serious condition

in Middlemore hospital tonight. She suffered chest and head injuries. Donnello Mary Lawrence, aged seven, is in a serious condition in Auckland hospital.

Mrs Edna Frances Allen, of 17 Tasman drive, Papakura, is in a fair condition in Middlemore hospital. She suffered head injuries. Her 21-month-old son, Russel John Allen, is in a satisfactory condition at Auckland hospital. Judith Anne Lawrence, aged five, was treated at Middlemore hospital and later discharged. Died In Fire

An Auckland message reports that a man was burnt to death in a fire which destroyed his home in Ladies Mile, Manly, early today. He was

John Loughman, aged 53, single, a war pensioner, living on his own. A neighbour, Mr T. Parrish,

who first noticed the fire about 2.45 a.m., said later that rescue was impossible because of the firm hold the fire had. Fell In Gorge

According to a Press Association message from Palmerston North a heavy truck drove over a 300 ft drop into the Manawatu river in the Manawatu Gorge early on Friday evening, apparently killing the driver instantly. He was

Ronald George White, aged 43, of Woodville, married with four children.