Vehicle falls 300ft after road slips

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32734, 11 October 1971, Page 14

Vehicle falls 300ft after road slips

A man was on the seriously-ill list in Christchurch Hospital last evening with head and chest injuries, suffered when a utility vehicle went off the road and slid 300 ft into a gully beside the Te Oka Bay Road, near Little River, late yesterday morning.

The condition of Robert Anthony Smith, of 38 Russley Road, last evening was reported by the hospital as “fair.” It is thought that the accident occurred when the utility vehicle moved to the side of the road, and the _ surface gave way. Mr Smith was brought the 40 miles to Christchurch Hospital by an ambulance sent from Christchurch.

Two other persons suffered minor injuries in the accident; they were treated at the hospital and discharged. They are Lynette Glenys Averts, of 54 Charlcott Street, and Priscilla Dailey, of 35 Hillary Crescent. Hit by car.—A 12-year-old girl suffered moderately serious arm and leg injuries when she was hit by a car at the intersection of Linwood Avenue and Hay Street about 5.30 p.m. on Saturday. Julie Lightowler, of 89 Mackworth Street, yesterday was described by Christchurch Hospital as being in a comfortable condition. Chest injuries. Adrian Gerald Walker, of 23 Allstone Place, suffered moderately serious chest and leg injuries when the motor-cycle he was riding was involved in a col-

lision with a car in Allstone Place, about 10.30 a.m. yesterday. His condition in Christchurch Hospital last evening was satisfactory. Cars collide.—A man was in a “fairly satisfactory” condition in Christchurch Hospital yesterday after suffering head and arm injuries when two cars collided on the Main North Road, outside Pinehaven, about 6 p.m. on Saturday. The injuries suffered by Edward O’Neill, of Woodend Beach Road, Kaiapoi, were described as moderately serious. Fell from buggy.— Russell Bowman, of 59 Mcßratney’s Road, was admitted to Christchurch Hospital with chest injuries after he fell from a “beach buggy” at Spencer Park about 5 p.m. on Saturday. His condition yesterday was described as satisfactory, and his injuries as “not serious.”

Motor-cyclist injured. John Barry Clark, of 59 Rowley Avenue, suffered head, arm and leg injuries when his motor-cycle and a car collided in Cashmere Road about 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. His condition in Christchurch Hospital yesterday was satisfactory.