Injured driver dies in hospital
-.Nelson reporter A young man who was badly injured when the car he was driving crashed through a fence near Wakefield early last Sunday morning, died in the Nelson Public Hospital late yesterday afternoon. He was: Steven Maurice Jonson, aged 21, of Pointers Crescent, Nelson. The car left the road on a right hand bend near Wakefield, smashed through a wire fence, then leaped 18 metres through the air across a ditch be-, ing dug across the paddock. The car overturned and Slid another 24 metres, flattening the roof. The driver was trapped inside the car- for 45 minutes before rescuer's could free him, and was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he spent the last week in intensive care.
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