Fatal point made

Press, 20 October 1980, Page 1

Fatal point made

PA ■ ' Auckland An Auckland chemist who had been campaign-.' ing to have a pedestrian crossing resited, and who only last week said someone would die, on if, was hit by. a car on the crossing on Friday evening and ‘died in hospital on. Saturday. He was ..; Herbert Goffe Foster, of : Mount Smart. The crossing: is near the

The crossing: is near the top of a rise outside Mr Foster’s’chemist shop in the Mount- Smart shopping centre. . . Mr Foster and a wine shop assistant, Mr A. R. Bancroft, had been lobbying the Onehunga Borough Council to have the pedestrian crossing moved or traffic lights installed. They said that motorists could not see the crossing until the were nearly on top of .it. I Mr Bancroft last eventing' asked why a death iwas needed before officials listened. A -spokesman for the i Ministry of Transport said [that the car which hit Mr I Fosteriihad been travelling i iir? the K opposite direction I front? the cars Messrs Ban- ' croft :'and< Foster had complained about ■ Two years ago the pehad been moved, from its original site’ further north on the road;' and painted in the middle?of-the small shop-ping-area,.:'Mr ; Bancroft said. Soon after the move a woman: had been killed and several people had been hurt in: accidents.,’ :