Twelve killed on roads at week-end

Press, 26 June 1989, Page 8

Twelve killed on roads at week-end

PA Wellington Twelve people have died on New Zealand’s roads this week-end. Timothy Liam Hurley, aged 36, of Otaki, and his three-year-old son Kris Jared Hurley, died instantly when their car collided with another vehicle on Whangehu Hill road 13km south of Wanganui on Friday evening. Heather Hurley and her son Lance, aged five, were taken to Wanganui Base Hospital with a passenger from the other vehicle.

A Hokitika man, Brent John Webster, aged 26, was killed early on Satur-

day when his vehicle hit a concrete lamp post near Kaikinu overbridge on State highway 6 between Greymouth and Hokitika. The police said Mr Webster was driving north when the vehicle went out of control and hit the post about 80m-100m from the overbridge, at 12.20 a.m. Also on Saturday a youth died and three people are in hospital after a car hit a parked truck and trailer in Pollen Street, Thames. The youth, Barry John Best, aged 19, was the driver of the car which smashed into the side of the truck’s trailer unit.

Sydney Dennis Hirst, aged 70, of Waikari, was killed when his car . hit Ampills Bridge in Hurunui County, North Canterbury, on State highway 2 on Saturday. He was the sole occupant of the car. In Nelson, a man, aged 23, was arrested and charged with manslaughter following a car crash at Tahuna Beach early Saturday. A young woman, aged 16, was killed and a youth, aged 17, was seriously injured in the crash, which happened about 12.30 a.m. when a car went out of control and ploughed into the back of their parked car.

Another young woman in the same car was taken to hospital suffering from shock. Their names were not available this evening.

Two West Auckland people died early on Sunday when their car hit a lamp standard, on Great North Road, Kelston. It took the Fire Service 30 minutes to cut their bodies free. Sharon Elaine Thorrowgood, aged 33, a parttime receptionist of Kopiko Street, Titirangi, and a Titirangi man, aged 25, whose name was not available last night were killed instantly. Ms Thorrowgood’s son, Mark, and his friend,

Charles Rushton, both aged 13, were admitted to Auckland Hospital with serious leg injuries. Michael Paul Claugh Emery, aged 48, of Paeroa, was killed when the car he was a passenger in hit a pole in River Road out of Ngatea on Hauraki Plains early yesterday.

About 10 a.m. yesterday a man, aged 53, died when two cars collided on State highway 1 at Waipu in Whangarei. No further details were available yesterday evening.

A farmer out for a morning walk found the body of a man, aged 37, in a car in a culvert beside

Glenbrook-Waiuku road yesterday. The man, Samuel Glen Barclay, of Manurewa, was an employee of N.Z. Steel at Glenbrook. The police believe the accident happened about midnight on Saturday, although the man was not found until 11 a.m. yesterday. They said the car went over a bank and into the creek. At Wellsford, a motorcyclist died after his machine and a car were in a collision on State highway 1 just after 2 a.m. yesterday.

He was James Chadwick, aged 49, of Wellsford.