Motor-cyclist killed in collision

Press, 31 December 1980, Page 4

Motor-cyclist killed in collision

■ PA Invercargill An Invercargill freezing worker was killed yesterday afternoon when his motorcycle was involved in a head-on collision with a oolice car on the main road between Queenstown and Cromwell. He was Allan Douglas Marshall, aged 30, of Moulson Street, Invercargill. His pillion passenger, a young women, whose name had not been released last evening, is reported in a serious condition in the Lake County Hospital at Frankton, where she underwent surgery late yesterday afternoon. Senior-Sergeant M. Moore, of Queenstown, said the accident happened between 3 p.m. and 3.30 p.m., on. State highway 6 near Nevis Bluff. He said the two policemen in the police car were trav-

.elling from Christchurch to Queenstown to take up New Year duty as reinforcements for the local police. He said both men were badly shocked and one suffered a slight injury to the foot. Both the police car and the 1000 cu. cm motor-cycle are write-offs. A Whangarei man was killed at Palliser Bay yesterday afternoon when he fell from his perch on the front of a tractor and was run over. He was Keith Robert Redwood, aged 30, married, with two children. Mr Redwood was riding on the front' of the' tractor, which was pulling a boat towards the beach along Western Lake Road when he fell. Yesterday’s 'two road deaths bring the toll for the Christmas-New Year holiday period so far to 24.