Witnesses sought to hit-and-run

Press, 6 March 1978, Page 1

Witnesses sought to hit-and-run

The Christchurch police want witnesses to a hit-and-run accident on Saturday evening in which a young motor-cyclist was seriously injured. The motor-cyclist was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital with severe head injuries after his machine and a car collided on the Old North Road, near Kaiapoi, about 8.50 p.m. He is Peter Edward Sigvertsen, aged 16, of Chapman Street, Kaiapoi. Mr Sigvertsen was still under intensive care last evening, but his condition was reported to be improving. The police are still trying to trace the driver of the car, which failed to stop.

A Christchurch youth was killed when the car he was pushing was struck by another car in Harewood Road early on Saturday morning. He was Kenneth Robert Wilson, aged 15, of Moreland Avenue, Papanui. The accident occurred

about 2.30 a.m. only a short distance from his home. Two men, one from Blenheim, were killed, and a father and his son, aged three, were injured, when two cars collided head-on on the Western Hutt Road, Wellington, on Saturday night, reports the Press Association. The road was closed for more than an hour by the crash. The men killed were in one car. They were Murray George Hopkinson, aged 34, of Wellington; and lan Ramsay Wemyss, aged 46, of Blenheim. The driver of the other car, Colin Edmonds, of Lower Hutt, suffered lacerations, a neck injury, and suspected concussion. He is in a satisfactory condition in hospital. His young son suffered minor injuries and was discharged from hospital yesterday morning. There was another double fatality in a headon collision near Pokeno,

south of Auckland, on Friday night. The two killed were Ronald Keith Dickey, aged 41; and Douglas Mervyn Dickey, aged 17, both of Papakura. An elderly motorist died in a collision involving two milk tankers and a car near Whangarei on Saturday. He was Morris James Robinson, aged 71, of Urquharts Bay. One tanker rolled 50 metres down a gully, finishing on its wheels. The other jack-knifed across the road, trapping the front of the car under the tank trailer. At Palmerston North, a student from Massey University was killed on Saturday night when the motorcycle he was riding failed to take a bend. He was David Bruce Worthington, aged 22, a son of the principal of Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston North.