Injured pair spend 30 hours in wreck

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33759, 4 February 1975, Page 18

Injured pair spend 30 hours in wreck

(Aew Zealand Press Association

DUNEDIN. February’ 3. Two Balclutha youths lay seriously injured beside their dead companion for about 30 hours after their car crashed through a bridge on the Clydevale to Balclutha road early yesterday morning.

A search by police, friends, | and relatives of the boys I yesterdav morning tailed to find any trace of the boys, who were overdue from a trip from Clydevale. The dead youth was Renaldus Hubbitus Bouman. aged 18, of Hospital Road. Balclutha. According to Balclutha 5 police, the car in which the boys were travelling plunged off the road near a bridge on the Clydevale road and youths were trapped for some into the water. It is believed that the youth were trapped for some

, | time before Stuart John Me-! ijGraw, aged 20, of Balclutha, i was able to break free of the ' , car. i i According to the police, he made an attempt to climb the emb, nkment to summon , help but fell unconscious. > He “came to” during a . I shower early this morning, and was nearing the top of!i!the embankment when a pass-! • ing motorist .w a head mnv- [ ing in the grass and stopped , i The other occupant of the 1 car, Mervyn Keith Perrin. • aged 17, was found seriously injured. Both the injured youths : were admitted to Balclutha Hospital but. according to the police, Perrin is to be transferred to Dunedin Hospital. It is believed that he is suffering from severe head injuries. The car was badly damaged. ij