Week-end accident victim dies

Press, 11 September 1986, Page 1

Week-end accident victim dies

Last week-end’s road toll — at 18 one of the worst in New Zealand on record — has been increased by the death of a woman in Burwood Hospital on Tuesday morning. The woman was injured in an accident north of Kaikoura on Saturday afternoon, an accident which was not originally recorded because of an oversight in the official reporting system. The Kaikoura police said last evening that the woman, aged 32, of Blenheim, was the driver of a car which left the road and rolled over at Kekerengu, about 40km north of Kaikoura. The woman was treated at the scene by a doctor and volunteer ambulancemen. They took her immediately to Burwood Hospital’s spinal unit,

where she died. Two children were also in the car. One was injured, but the other was strapped into a child restraint and escaped unhurt. The woman was Anna Caroline Vavasour. A woman injured in a fatal accident in Baisweil on Sunday, Lois Marilyn MacFarlane, has been moved out of Christchurch Hospital’s inten-sive-care unit. She is still listed as seriously ill. She was the driver of a car involved in -a threecar collision. Three occupants of one of the other cars were killed. Brent Peter Barry was still seriously ill in the intensive-care unit last evening, after his car rolled over on the Hurunui-Hawarden road on Saturday.