Chch woman dies in collision

Press, 22 October 1984, Page 1

Chch woman dies in collision

A woman was killed when the car in which she was travelling and a van collided at the corner of Baisweil Junction Road and Shands Road on Saturday. She was

Elizabeth Jane Allport, aged 70, of 12 Hinemoa Street, Spfeydon.

Her husband, Frederick Arthur Allport, was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital with chest injuries. Hospital staff said last evening he was “fairly comfortable and more settled.”

The accident happened about 11 a.m.

The Ministry of Transportreported traffic behaviour' in Christchurch for the first two days of the Labour Day week-end as good. Traffic flows had been moderate.

A “rush" of four drunken drivers between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday was all that had set the long weekend apart from a normal week-end, said Ministry staff.

A total of 27 breath screening tests and 20 evidential breath tests had been given, nine blood samples taken, and four arrests had been made.

Ministry staff were expecting traffic flows to peak

after midday today. Five injury accidents, eleven non-injury accidents, and one fatal accident had been reported in Christchurch from 4 p.m. on Friday until 8 p.m. yesterday

and four persons had died on the roads jn other parts of New Zealand. -

In Auckland, a motorcyclist, aged 16, died after a collision with a car at an intersection at 1.40 p.m. on Saturday. He was: Christopher Harley Eyles, of Mount Albert. Later in the afternoon a pedestrian was killed when he was struck by a car at a crossing in Mount Roskill. He was: John Glen Tapiata, aged 29, of Onehunga. A man will appear in the District Court at Auckland tomorrow charged with causing death by reckless driving and failing to stop after an accident. A man died when the car he was driving left the road

at Te Pohue, near Napier, at 8.20 p.m. on Saturday. A passenger was critically injured in the accident. A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport said the car appeared to have been travelling at speed when it went out of control, crossed the road, and crashed into a paddock. The dead man was: John Graham Smale, aged 22, a forestry worker, living at the Esk forest camp. . In Remuera, a man died about 5.30 a.m. yesterday after his car hit a power pole. The Ministry of Transport reported the car had earlier hit a parked car and then continued for about a kilometre before it hit the power pole. The dead man was:. Saimoni Michael Raikuna, aged -24, a sales representative, of Meadowbank, Auckland.