Four Road Deaths In North Island

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31809, 14 October 1968, Page 18

Four Road Deaths In North Island

Four persons were killed on North Island roads during the week-end, the Press Association reports.

A girl died when her <ar was involved in a collision with another on the Pukerua Bay hill on Saturday afternoon. She was Miss June Wai, aged 21, of Palmerston North. A woman in the other car, Mrs J. McGowan, of Paraparaumu, was taken to Wellington Hospital with a neck injury and multiple bruises. RIDER KILLED

A boy was killed instantly when a van hit his horse on the Hamilton - Morrinsville road at dusk on Saturday. He was

David Hanson, aged 13, of Morrinsville. He was riding near the Piako Bridge about a mile from his home. The horse, which was also killed, smashed the front of the van but the driver was not injured. STRUCK BRIDGE A man was killed when his car struck a bridge on the Inglewood-Stratford highway, south of the Norfolk Road junction, on Saturday evening. He was Allan Thomas Ingram, aged 24. of Campbell Street, Hawera. It Is believed Mr Ingram was killed instantly. HIT POLE A university student died in the Hutt Hospital after the car he was driving struck a

power pole- in Lower Hutt early yesterday. He was Michael Luey, aged 20, single, of Lower Hutt Mr Luey was returning home from a band engagement in Wellington when his car struck the pole. He was alone in the car.