Easter toll down
PA 1 Wellington The Easter holiday road toll reached double figures with the deaths of two men in separate accidents last evening, said the Ministry of Transport. ■ |The accidents took 1 the holiday death total to-10, compared with 19 at the corresponding! time last Easter. j ■ ]l | | The most recent fatalities came ] within ; 110 minutes from collisions in Hamilton and Blenheim.! A 64-year-old man was killed in a three car accident about 2km north of Blenheim on State highway lat 6.5 p.m. i ! . I The man, whose name was, not released, was travelling south when i his Icar collided with another travelling north. • The north bound car had bden hit from behind by ! another car and pushed! on .to the wrong side of !the road, said the Blenheim police. i A man was killed when his car and a truck col- 1 iided in Hamilton at 6.151 p.m. 1 He was Kenneth Richard Brown, 1 aged 39, of Te Pahu,' near Hamilton. N.I The eighth Easter vic-! tim was | ; I , Charles Beazley, aged 26, of Auckland. j i He was killed when his car left the road neiar Opononi, Hokianga, soon after midnight on Sunday.]
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