Bad week-end for road fatalities
PA Wellington Thirteen people had been killed on the roads in 35 hours at the weekend to 4 p.m. yesterday. A man, aged 20, was killed in a two-car collision in Wickham Way, Manakau City at 12.25 a.m. yesterday. He was Faefii Junior Tulefos, Four people were killed when two cars collided on State highway 5 near Taupo on Saturday morning. The Taupo police saidone car was travelling toward Napier when the driver lost control on a bend and collided with an oncoming car. The occupants of one car were
Vivyan John Skidmore, aged 80, of Napier, and Janet Anne Shrimpton, aged 42, also of Napier. Thb two people in the other car were
Steven Dennis Page, aged 25 and Gudrun Wagner, aged 25, both of Henderson. A Kawakawa woman and her two grandchildren were killed and her husband, the driver of the vehicle, was injured when their car hit a power pole in Penrose, Auckland, on Saturday morning. The dead woman was Teruaawai Davis, aged 45, and the children were Cade Sturmfells, aged two, and Michael’nei Sturmfells, aged nine months. About 10 minutes earlier a girl was killed and four others injured when their car was involved in a two-car headon collision in Mt Wellington, Auckland. The dead girl was Juliette O’Reilly aged 15, of Mt Roskill. A motor-cyclist died on Saturday morning in a
collision with a car on State highway 1 near Turangi. He was
Stuart lan Mclntosh, of Invercargill. A Paraparaumu woman died in Wellington Hospital on Friday night from injuries suffered when two cars collided head-on on State highway 1 at Paekakariki. She was
Dorothy Thelma Lawton, aged 70.
Two peopled died only metres apart in separate accidents on State highway 1 in Waikato on Friday. They were Ida Edith Bowden, aged 85, of Hamilton, who was killed instantly in a two-car head-on collision south of Airport Road, Tamahere, at 4.45 p.m., and.
Ross Sebastian Downey, aged 18, of Cambridge, who died in a two-car head-on collision near the same intersection at 11.10 p.m.
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