Five killed on the roads

Press, 5 December 1978, Page 2

Five killed on the roads

PA Palmerston North A Palmerston North schoolteacher was killed on Sunday in a head-on collision between two cars on State Highway 56 near the Longbum dairy factory. She was Cynthia Anne Pirie, aged 45, who taught at Awatapu College. Mrs Pirie was a passenger' in a car being driven by her; husband, Leonard Walter Pirie, when the accident happened about 12.30 a.m. Mr Pirie was treated at Palmerston North Hospital and later discharged. A Kaingaroa man was found dead near his car off State Highway 38 near Kaingaroa on Sunday. The, police said the vehicle had rolled over sometime during the previous night. He was Wana Charles Dunn, a forest ranger, of Kaingaroa. He was thought to be in the late 20s. A man was killed on Sun-! day night when his car Struck a power pole and crashed into a brick wall in

Middleton Road, Newmarket. He was Kevin Upson, in his early 20s, of Remuera. Auckland. A man killed when a utility truck hi. a bank on the Maitai Valley Road on! I Sunday was Ron Anthony Agnew, aged 26, of Nelson, the police! said yesterday. ■ Two passengers, Marie; Agnew, wife of the dead man, and Miss Maxine: Asprey, of Mapua. are re-; ported in a satisfactory con-' dition in the Nelson Hospital? A Ngongotaha woman was) killed at tne week-end when the car she was driving! plunged over a steep bank! and into the Waireka Gorge; stream about 20km from) Opotiki. She was Nancy Isobel Carr, aged 54. the only occupant of the vehicle, who is believed I to have been travelling! to Gisborne on Friday! night when the accident! occurred. Mrs Carr’s body was recovered about 3.30 p.m. on! Saturday.