Young Driver Found Dead

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 24

Young Driver Found Dead

The driver of a station waggon was killed after it left the road two miles north of Winton, on the In-vercargill-Queenstown highway, on Saturday, the Press Association reports. He was Stanley John Stuart, aged 18, an apprentice mechanic, of Hillary Street, Winton. He was the eldest of a family of 11 children whose father died about four years ago. The accident was discovered early on Saturday morning by a passing motorist. He found the car, with its lights and heater switched on, against a fence on a

straight portion of the road. It appeared that the vehicle had rolled on the driver after he had been thrown out. Van Driver Dies A 20-year-old man died when the van he was driving crashed on the motorway half a mile south of the Tawa turnoff at 6 a.m. today. He was: Robert William McKeown, of Frederick Street, Wainuiomata, a driver. Mr McKeown was alone in the vehicle. He was driving south when the van hit a low bank at the right of the fast lane, capsized, and crashed over a 10ft bank separating the north and south lanes. Death On Farm A youth suffered fatal head injuries, when the farm

vehicle that he was driving at Ranui overturned at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday. He was: Adrian Hugh Wingate, aged 17, of Ranui.

Two Killed Two persons were killed in separate accidents in the Hastings area within an hour on Friday afternoon. In one a 10-year-old girl died and two adults and four children were taken to hospital with minor injuries after two cars collided at a highway junction four miles west of Hastings. The dead girl was: Sonia Mary Reed, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. N. Reed, of Napier.

Mr Reed, driver of one of the cars, his wife, their three other children and an eight-

year-old boy, a passenger in the second car, were taken to hospital. In the second accident a young man died soon after his power-cycle' and a ear travelling in the same direction collided at 5.15 p.m. He was: Richard Andrew Grant, aged 24, single, of Hastings. Driver linprovetl The driver of a sports car which plunged off the end of Jellicoe Wharf, Auckland, on Thursday night, Wayne Michael William Hall, aged 20, of Mangere, was in an improved condition in Auckland Hospital tonight. Mr Hall was hauled unconscious from the water. Two of his three passengers were drowned.