Children on roadside killed by car

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33113, 2 January 1973, Page 10

Children on roadside killed by car

Two young children — both girls — were killed when they were hit by a car on the Rotorua-Whakatane highway , 20 miles from Rotorua, about 4.30 yesterdayafternoon, the Press Association reports.

A third girl was slightly hurt in the accident. The Rotorua police said the three children were walking on the edge of the road at the time. Those killed were Katrina Jennifer Marks, aged four, of Kiwi Street. Whakatane. and

(Ceclia Poihipi, aged nine, of King Street. ,Whakatane. Police investigations are continuing. Fatal collision Another child was killed after a head-on vehicle collision on State Highway 1, north of Levin, about 6.40 yesterday. She was Karen Coley 7 , aged 11, of Levin. Five persons were admitted i to Palmerston North Hospital. They included the dead girl’s ■ mother. Mrs Kathleen Coley, her 13-year-old brother, Wayne, and the driver of the car, Raymond Charles Harding. The car was towing a • caravan.

The driver of the other car,j Mr K. S. Behrent, of TaitaJ and his wife, were treated at; the hospital and discharged. ; Mother drowns The mother of four child-] ren drowned at Waitere; Beach near Levin, on Sun-, day afternoon. She was Mrs Frances Amokura Me-1 Corry, aged 41, of Te] Matai Road, Palmerstonj North. Mrs McCorry got into diffi-l culties about 2 p.m. and was] lost from sight. She was] found about 10 minutes later] ■5O yards from shore. Death in river A 25-year-old Maori man: drowned in the Waikato] River, about 18 miles north] of Taupo, yesterday after-; noon. The police were unable] to release his name last night]

because next-of-kin had not been notified.

The accident happened at 1.45 p.m. at Te Tokai when the man was swimming with companions and got into difficulties.

The police recovered the body after a two-hour search.