Deaths on road in North

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32531, 15 February 1971, Page 2

Deaths on road in North

A man was killed on Saturday night when his car and an Army truck collided 2J miles south of Clevedon, near Papakura, according to a Press Association message. He was Wilfred William James Rabbetts, aged 47, of Quarry Road, Drury. '

Mr Rabbetts was one of six persons killed in North Island road accidents at the weekend.

Eight Territorial soldiers, who were travelling in the back of the Army vehicle were injured. Four, who were going through the first phase of their annual training at Papakura Military Camp, were admitted to hospital. The others were treated and discharged. Messrs G. E. Geros, of Tiverton Road, Avondale, and D. K. Rutter, of Springside

Place, New Lynn, were reported last evening in a satisfactory condition in the Auckland Hospital. Also in a satisfactory condition at the Papakura Military Camp hospital are Messrs P. F. Wilson, of Porters Avenue, Mt Eden, and A. H. Strongman, of Nisbet Avenue, Moerewa. The men, all members of New Zealand Infantry Regi-

ment, were on their way to a night exercise when the

accident occurred. Two youths killed

Two Tokoroa youths were killed on Saturday night when the car they were driving overturned on State Highway I just south of Putaruru. They were Clive Desmond Allen, aged Ji), and

Leslie James Allen, aged 22. Both were timber workers but were not related. Their car went into a slide antj roi)ed af )east fiye tjmes fij n gj n g jt s two occupants on to t ft e roa( j wa y an( j finally en< jj ng up on top of them. wrecked car was s t o ]en from a Tokoroa car sa ] es j ot , ear ]j er the same night, the Putaruru police yest erday.

Struck railings

A motor-cyclist died when his machine struck safety railings on the side of Ham-

ilton’s motorway, bringing him against a concrete embankment at 2.40 p.m. on Saturday. He was Stanley Charles Bergersen, aged 16, of Puru, on the Thames coast. A 16-year-old pillion pas-

senger, Dennis Blitbich, of Holland Street, Thames, was taken to the Waikato Hospital, where his condition yesterday was given as satisfactory*.

Farmhand killed

A Waitotara farmhand was killed when the tractor he was driving overturned down a bank about 11 a.m. on Saturday. He was

Bruce Kenneth Freeman, aged 20, married, with one child.

Mr Freeman had been working sheep on the tractor on a property owned by the Waipipi Estate, Waitotara. When the mishap occurred, the tractor roiled once, crushing the driver, and rolled back on to its wheels. Mr Freeman is believed to have been killed .instantly.