Two die in crash
A Timaru woman and her young daughter were killed and the rest of their family injured when two cars collided on State highway 1 at Bankside, about skm north of Rakaia, just after I p.m. yesterday. The women’s son, aged two, was critically ill in Ashburton Hospital late last evening. The dead were RAELENE ANNETTE MORRIS, of 41 Mountain View Road, Timaru; and SUZANNE KAYE MORRIS, aged four. The woman’s son, Blair Morris, suffered severe multiple injuries and her husband, Graeme Robert Morris, was admitted to Ashburton Hospital with minor head injuries. Mr Morris was reported to be in a satisfactory condition last evening. The sole occupant of the other car, Hugh Donald Munroe, of Temuka, also escaped with minor injuries and was reported in a satisfactory condition in the hospital last evening. Firemen of the Ashburton and Rakaia volunteer brigades had to be called to cut the victims from the wreckage of the Morris’s car. The police have appealed for witnesses of the accident to approach .them as soon as possible.
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