Linwood Motor-cyclist Dies

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 26

Linwood Motor-cyclist Dies

A youth seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Linwood Avenue on Friday died in the Christchurch Hospital yesterday. He was Anthony Edwin Cox, aged 17, woolclasser, of 19 Mating Street, Linwood. He suffered head injuries when his machine crashed into a tree near Woodham Road One Dead. 2 Hurt Another youth was killed and two others were injured;

one of them seriously, in a motor accident on Racecourse Road, Te Awamutu, early on Saturday morning, the Press , Association reports. The . youth killed was Brian Thomas Fynn, aged 19, ' of Mangere Road, Pukea- • tua. ’ Passenger Dies 1 A passenger thrown from a car which overturned on the ’ Rotorua - Murupara highway about 10 p.m. on Friday died in the Rotorua Hospital early on Saturday. He was William Taylor, aged 25, single, a bushman, of : Murupara.

Derailed Waggon A man was killed when his car crashed into a refrigerated railway waggon at the end of the Petone Esplanade about 6 a.m. yesterday. He was Kelvin Leslie Davis, aged 21, of Buick Street, Petone. The car was wrecked and the waggon derailed. Racing Crash One of the few women racing drivers in New Zealand, 23-year-old Miss M. Duff, of Manurevja, Auckland, was injured on Saturday when

her car hit a fence at the Pukekohe circuit during the Dunlop Gold Star meeting. In full view of the grandstand she lost control on the curve at the end of the pitstraight and drove straight into the fence at about 70 miles an hour. Her Mini-Cooper S sent wood flying into the air and ripped out a 50ft section of the barrier. Still conscious, but with her face covered in blood, she was taken to the Middlemore Hospital with cuts to the heed and face. Her condition last night was satisfactory.