Road toll climbs to nine

Press, 28 October 1981, Page 3

Road toll climbs to nine

PA Wellington The Labour Day week-end road toll reached nine yesterday morning, one more than.the 1980 figure. The latest death reported

was of an Auckland woman who died when the car she was travelling in and another vehicle collided head-on on State highway 2 near Paeroa just before 8 p.m. on Monday. She was Emma Masters, aged 52, of Northcote, who was travelling with her family.

_ The New Plymouth police yesterday named a small girl killed in a head-on collision north of New Plymouth on Monday evening. She was Amanda Schischka, aged five, a passenger in a car driven by her mother, Mrs Cheryl Schischka, of Bell Block. The worst Labour Day

week-end road toll in recent years was in 1978, when 16 people died.

The week-end fatalities take the road toll for the year so far to 494. Last year, 445 people had died on the roads at the same time. The total for the whole of last year was 600. In other holiday week-end accidents,. an Auckland fisherman, Keith Marshall, is missing, presumed drowned, after he disappeared while changing nets from a boat at Wattle Bay on the Manukau Harbour on Monday. In Bay of Plenty, the police and searchers yesterday combed Upper Wairoa River for a young man,

Christopher Neville Bright, aged 19, of Mount Maunganui, on Sunday A Wanganui motor-cycle racing rider, David Doran, aged 26, is in a critical conditioon in Wellington Hospital after a speedway accident in Wanganui on Sunday evening. Mr Doran suffered head and chest injuries when the machine he was riding, with a sidecar attached, crashed into a retaining wall during a race. He was transferred to Wellington by helicopter on Monday. A man, aged 70, died in Auckland Hospital on Monday from injuries suffered when he was hit by a car on October 19.