CABINET MINISTER INJURED IN CRASH

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31543, 4 December 1967, Page 24

CABINET MINISTER INJURED IN CRASH

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 3. The Minister of Customs (Mr Shelton), who broke both legs in a road accident near Foxton yesterday afternoon, is now quite comfortable, according to a Palmerston North Hospital spokesman.

Mrs Shelton, who suffered cuts, bruising and shock, was in a similar condition, he said. The Sheltons’ car plunged down a 40ft bank after colliding with a car towing a boat just south of the Manawatu River bridge at Foxton. The other car overturned, but neither the driver nor his two passengers were injured. Double Fatality Two women were killed and a man was badly hurt on Saturday when two cars

crashed head on near Cambridge. One of the dead women and her husband had arrived in New Zealand from the Channel Islands only a few hours before the tragedy. The dead were Louise Craike, aged 54, of Shortland Street, Auckland, and Joan Nellie Dewse, aged 50, of Jersey, Channel Islands, the condition of whose husband, Mr R. F. Dewse, aged 48, is reported as satisfactory. Young Man Dies A young man was killed when the car he was driving

■ crashed into a tree after running off the road at Mopuka, east of Mercer, about 2.30 a.m. yesterday. Two passengers in the car were taken to the Middlemore Hospital. The man killed was Donald William Cameron, aged 22, of Kopuka, The car was extensively damaged. Tractor Tragedy

A farmer and his six-year-old daughter were killed instantly in a tractor accident on Hillfoot Road, Waiwera South, about six miles from Clinton, on Saturday. They were James Andrew Greenfield, aged 39, and Aileen Diane Greenfield. Aileen was playing with a stationary tractor outside the Greenfields’ farmhouse and accidentally released the brakes. The tractor rolled backwards down the steep drive, and Mr Greenfield, who was washing his hands nearby, gave chase. He managed to leap on to the back of the runaway vehicle, which was gathering speed. As it ran out of the drive into Hillfoot Road, Mr Greenfield applied the brakes, but the tractor lurched, rolled over a sft bank and landed upside down, pinning both Mr Greenfield and his daughter beneath it. Both died of head injuries. The tragedy was witnessed by Mr Greenfield’s wife and their two sons and two other daughters. Struck By Cars A 47-year-old woman died in Kew Hospital late on Saturday night after she was knocked over by a car on the Riverton-Invercargill Highway at 11.25 p.m. She was Mrs May Terese Nilsen, of 296 Barrow Street, Bluff. An elderly man was fatally injured when struck by a motor car on the TimaruPleasant Point Highway at 5.50 p.m. today. He was John Bell, aged 77, a retired farmer, of 25A Guinness Street, Timaru. Mr Bell died in the Timaru Hospital.