Girl’s narrow escape

Press, 28 May 1979, Page 6

Girl’s narrow escape

PA New Plymouth A young Hawera man was killed when the car be was driving on Saturday left the road and ploughed through an iron fence and into a house, narrowly missing a young girl. He was Donovan Tukotahi Spencer Kora, aged 20, a clerk. Rochelle Heibner, aged seven, was playing in the garden of the house when the car crashed through the fence, missing her by less than half a metre. Mr Koru was alone in the car. A Wanganui woman was killed instantly and a lorry driver was badly injured when a car and a stock truck and trailer unit collided yesterday morning, reports the Press Association from Wanganui. The accident happened at Marybank, only a kilometre from Wanganui. The woman killed was Margaret Lynne Rawson,

aged 23, of Wanganui. The truck driver, who was trapped in his cab for three hours with two broken legs, was Peter Molan, aged 33, of Wanganui. The organiser of a fourwheel drive rally was killed yesterday when his utility overturned on a steep bank near Masterton and he was crushed. He was Timothy John Carman, aged 33 of Stronvar, near Masterton. He was not competing in the event at the time. Although the vehicle was fitted with safety belts, Mr Carman was not wearing one and was trapped under the roll bar of the vehicle. A third woman died in hospital on Saturday as a result of a collision between an oil tanker and a car on the Bluff road on Friday morning. She was Daphne Hazel Dunn, aged 36, of Bluff. Mrs Dunn was a passenger in a car which collided with the tanker.