Holiday toll now 15

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33422, 2 January 1974, Page 14

Holiday toll now 15

(Scio Zealand Preu dnociation)

WELLINGTON, January* 1-

Thirty-six hours before the official end of the Christmas-New Year holiday period, 15 persons had died on New Zealand roads.

At the same time last Christmas holidays the toll was 24.

A Ministry of Transport apqioMnao tonight Mid that some dxtora were letting

their speed creep up .over ths n*wfy-imposed 50 m.p±. limit. The provisional road toll for 1973 is a record 843. In 1972, 713 died on the roads. The holiday period officially ends at 8 am. on Thursday. In the Christmas-New | Year period of 1972-73, 37 persons died on the roads, and 834 were injured. This year there are 70,000' more cars registered but the "think-drive” admonition to' drivers, plus the possibility of a petrol shortage, is be-: lieved to be restraining drivers from speed and, dangerous overtaking. BOY KILLED

A boy was killed in Auckland today when his bicycle and a car collided. He was David Bruce Anscombe, aged 15. of Minton Place, Manurewa.

He was thrown from his bicycle and struck by two vehicles travelling in the other direction. CAR OVERTURNS A woman was killed when the car in which she was a passenger overturned a mile south of the Napier boundary I

at 11 p.m. yesterday. She was

Mrs Mona Lisa Katie Grey, aged about 19, of Havelock North.

She was one of six people to the car. The others were admitted to Napier Hospital where their condition is satisfactory. PASSENGER DIES

A young woman passenger died when a car hit a telegraph poie in East Tamaki, near Papatoetoe. She was Mrs June Thelma Mears,

aged 24, a typist, of Solo Place, Manurewa. CAR HIT POLE

' A man who was trapped in the wreckage of his car at Thombury for more than an hour on New Year’s Eve while firemen tried to free him, died later in hospital He was

James Kahukura, aged 26, a shearer, of Dipton. Mr Kahukura’s car left the road near the Thombury bridge and hit a power pole about 10.15 pm. A passenger in the car escaped with minor injuries.

VICTIM NAMED The man killed a mile south of Dannevirke on Saturday night when the car in which he was a passenger hit a bridge was Jackie Tearoaukl Mako, aged 32, a freezing worker, of Humes Street, Waitara,