Ice plagues Chch motorists
Ice played havoc with motorists on Christchurch roads yesterday morning. Within an hour, four women had been taken to hospital from separate accidents, and by the end of the thaw, eight accidents had been reported to the Ministry of Transport. “It’s pretty much what has been happening over the last five or six days,” a spokesman said. “People aren’t careful enough out there.” At 6.58 a.m. a woman, aged 32, suffered moderate facial and head injuries when her vehicle hit a pole at the intersec-
tion of State highway 73 and Hasketts Road. Thirty minutes later a car crashed through a fence in Gloucester Street. The driver suffered minor injuries. At 7.39 a.m. a motorcyclist suffered moderate leg injuries when her machine collided with a car at the intersection of Moorhouse Avenue and Barbadoes Street. Another motor-cyclist, aged 28, suffered multiple leg fractures when she came to grief at the intersection of Mahars Road and Innes Road at 8 a.m.
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