Russian crash secrecy
PA Hamilton A veil of secrecy surrounds the motor accident after ! which the Russian Embassy’s top officials in New Zealand were admitted to Tokoroa Hospital on Saturday. The Russian Ambassador (Mr O. P. Selyaninov), his wife, the first secretary, and the embassy chauffeur, were all admitted to hospital after the head-on crash. Details of their conditions were not available yesterday, and the police would not say how the accident happened. A reporter who made inquiries was told by the police: “We have had instructions from Wellington that we give no circumstances of the accident to the press”; and by the hospital: “We have been given instructions from the Russian Embassy in Wellington not to release the condition of the patients. You will have to ring the Embassy.” However, there was no reply from the Embassy. A Wellington foreign affairs spokesman said that the driver of the Russian car would be entitled to diplomatic immunity. “Diplomatic immunity is designed to cover such things as this,” he said.
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