Police may charge driver
Charges will almost certainly be laid against the driver of the Mercury Cougar car which was in a fatal collision in Memorial Avenue on Tuesday evening. Kresimir Peter Ivos, aged 17, of Burnside, died as a result of the nose-to-tail collision between the Mini in which he was travelling, and the Mercury. The drive’r of the Mini, the dead youth’s mother. Mrs Ivanka Ivos, suffered head and chest injuries in the accident.
She was discharged from The Princess Margaret Hospital yesterday.
“We almost certainly will lay charges against’ the driver of the Mercury,” said Senior-Sergeant A. E. Yaxley, of the Christchurch Inquiry Office, yesterday. He could not specify yesterday what charges would be laid against the driver. The Christchurch police are still looking for witnesses of the collision, which was near the Kendal Avenue junction about 6.40 p.m. They want to hear from anyone who saw the accident/or anyone who noticed the black Mercury Cougar ora red Ford Mustang Cobra just before the crash.
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