DRIVER KILLED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 12

DRIVER KILLED

Collision With Motor Truck By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, March 30. Severe head injuries, which caused his instant death, were received by Mr. Leonard liickling, a middle-aged man, of 10 Mayfield Avenue, St. Albans, when the motor-car he was driving collided with a heavily-laden motor-truck going in the opposite direction on the Main North Hoad, two miles north of Amberley, at 8 o'clock last evening. The car was coming south and the two right-hand front wheels of the vehicles struck, the car scraping along the side of the truck and taking fire immediately. It continued on a short way and (hen skidded across the road, coining to rest with its rear wheels in the water-table at the side of the road. Tlie oilier persons in the car were Mrs. Maude liickling; wife of the driver, their daughter, Eleanor Hickling, aged IS, and Douglas Le Comte. Tliey suffered minor injuries and also from shock. One of the passengers in the motortruck, which belonged to Hadfield Bros.. Lewis Pass, had the fingers of one hand lacerated.

Mr. liickling was dragged from the burning ear by the passengers as soon as it came to rest, but. be was dead whim he was extricated. His injuries were caused apparently by door tittings and broken glass. The car was completely burned, and is a total ■wreck.

'l’lie damage Io the truck, which was loaded witli petrol and bitumen for the Lewis Pass, was a broken driving shaft and damaged wing and bodywork where tlie ear struck.

FATAL INJURIES

Motor-cyclist Dies in Hospital

By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, Jia reh 30.

As the result of a collision with a motor-ear at an intersection in the borough yesterday afternoon. Timothy James Pitt, aged 19, a clerk in the National Bank, while riding a motorcycle. received fatal injuries. He was admitted to hospital with a fracture of the base of (lie skull. He did not recover consciousness, dying at 1 o'clock tliis morning. The car was driven by Bernard Gallagher, aged 24, canvasser, who sustained a severe eye injury. Pitt’s parents live in Nelson. .Six years ago they lost another son, also aged 19, in a shooting tragedy in the Marlborough district.