GIRL DIES IN BURNING CAR

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32395, 7 September 1970, Page 14

GIRL DIES IN BURNING CAR

(New Zealand Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, September 6.

A Mataura girl died in the burning wreck of a late-model car when it hit a concrete bridge four miles east of Riversdale early this morning.

The girl, a passenger in the car, was

Her husband suffered head and internal injuries. MAN DIES

Ann Margaret McGorlick, aged 17, of Culling Terrace, Mataura.

An elderly man died in Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, yesterday morning from injuries suffered when he was hit by a motor scooter in Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna, on July 15. He was Michael Thomas Walsh, aged 84, printer, married, of Egremont Street, Bel-; monL I

The car, travelling from Riversdale to Gore, hit the side of the bridge at 4 a.m. and burst into flames immediately.

The Gore and Riversdale fire brigades were able to put out the fire before it reached the car’s petrol tank.

The driver is believed to have been thrown clear. INJURIES FATAL

A Nelson report said a man was fatally injured at Upper Takaka about 10 p.m. yesterday when a car hit a concrete abutment of a culvert He was

Lawrence Cecil Stewart, aged 51, single, of Takaka. WOMAN KILLED On the Great North Road, Glen Eden, Auckland, a young woman was killed when two cars collided about 7.05 p.m. yesterday. She was Mrs Arawa Margaret Graham, aged 22, of Woodglen; Road, Glen Eden.