DEATH OF YOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 15

DEATH OF YOUTH

MISHAPS AFTER DANCE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NELSON, December 20,

The Nelson-Wai-iti Road, just beyond Wakefield, was the scene of a motorcycle tragedy in the early hours on Sunday morning, and also of another accident at approximately the same time with a motor-cyclist taken to1 hospital in a ve^-y critical condition. Both accidents occurred after the conclusion of a dance at Foxhill.

Alan M. Higgins, aged 18, when proceeding from Foxhill to Wakefield on a motor-cycle, had a head-on collision with a car driven by Mr. W. Greep, and was killed outright. Apparently the cycle went .beneath the car and the cyclist over it. About the same time, W. Mclvor, of Tapawera, aged 21, went for a ride on a friend's motor-cycle, and nothing was heard of him until 8 a.m. today, when he was found lying in a ditch on the side of the road very gravely injured, the motor-cycle lying nearby. He evidently collided with a telegraph post and received grave injuries. His condition tonight was very critical.

Higgins and Mclvor ■ were cousins. The persons in the car with, which Higgins's machine collided were on their way to look for Mclvor. Constable S. C. Higgins, of Petone, and Constable R. Griffith, of Lower Hutt, are cousins of Mclvor and were similarly related to Higgins.