N.Z. skier dies

Press, 7 June 1980, Page 1

N.Z. skier dies

The New Zealand women’s ski-ing champion, Julia' Jane Allison, aged 20, died in the Christchurch Hospital last evening after an accident on the'Main North Road on Wednesday evening. Miss Allison, of Fernside, near Rangiora, had suffered severe head injuries when the car she was driving and another car collided 300 metres north of the Styx Mill bridge about 10 p.m. Her. younger sister, Miranda Kathryn Allison, is still seriously ill in the in-tensive-care unit at the hospital with severe head and chest injuries. The third occupant of the car, Hamish Neville Cooper, of Merivale, was reported to be off the seriously ill list and improving last evening. Julia Allison, who never regained consciousness after the accident, was widely known in ski-ing circles in Canterbury; She had represented New Zealand in the 1978 world alpine championships at Garmisch - Partenkirchen, and had twice won the national combined title — in 1977 and 1979. The Christchurch police

have appealed for any witnesses to the accident to get in touch with the Central Police Station immediately. . ■ A man is still seriously ill in the intensive-care unit at the Christchurch Hospital after his car and another collided at the intersection of Antigua Street and Disraeli Street, Addington, about 11- p.m. on Saturday; May : 3l. He is Maurice Edward Cavanagh; aged 47, of Disraeli Street, who ■ sufffered severe head injuries. The police also seek witnesses to that accident.