TAXI-DRIVER KILLED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 11

TAXI-DRIVER KILLED

-4* Collision With Tree In Palmerston North

Dominion Special Service

PALMERSTON N„ July 31.

While proceeding to a call from Fitzherbert Avenue just before 7 o’clock this morning a taxi driven by Mr. Cecil H. Terry left the bitumen in the avenue and collided with a tree. Mr. Terry was killed instantly. The collision was very severe and the noise was heard 200 yards away. Mr. Terry was apparently thrown heavily against the windscreen, which was shattered in front of the driver’s seat. He received head injuries, possibly a broken neck, and severe facial cuts, and was dead when picked up. An eyewitness of the accident said the car seemed to veer over to the left and went straight into the tree, hitting it practically head on but slightly to the left side of the car, which was badly wrecked as far back as the first door. The engine was partially wrenched from its mountings. After hitting the tree the car bounced back and swung round in the opposite direction some feet away. Mr. Terry was an owner-driver. He came to Palmerston North from Lintou, where he was born, and was a married man with three daughters. MOTOR-CYCLIST’S DEATH Collision With Motor-car

Dominion Special Service.

PALMERSTON N„ July 31.

After receiving severe head injuries and a compound fracture of the left leg in a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a motor-car near Bunnythorpe on Saturday evening, Mr. Kenneth Nilsson, aged 19, Range Road, Woodville, died in Palmerston North Hospital about midnight last night. The accident occurred on the Feilding side of Bunnythorpe and rain was falling heavily at the time. Mr. Nilsson was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Nilsson, Ahuapuranga Block, and was keenly interested in aviation, being a member of the W<rirarapa Aero Club. CAR GOES OVER BANK Two Occupants Injured Dominion Special Service NAPIER, July 31. Early this morning an open car went over a bank about 500 yards past the Eskdale railway station at a point where the road is undergoing reconstruction. The occupants, Mr. David Gordon, aged 21, Taradale, and Mr. James Hatwell, aged 20, Greenmeadows were taken to hospital, but Mr. Gordon, who was driving, was able to go home after treatment. Mr. Hatwell received abrasions and shock; though his condition is not serious he is still in Napier Public Hospital.