FATALLY STRUCK BY CAR
(P.A.) WHANGAREI, December 26. Exactly a -week after a similar fatality on the same stretch of road, Wireless Operator Keith Israel Blackburn, a member of the R.N.Z.A.F., single, Of Kaitangata, received fatal injuries on Christmas Eve on the KaitaiaAwanui road. He died in the Kaitaia Hospital on Christmas Day. Mr. D. W. Hoey, baker and confectioner, Awanui, was driving a car from Kaitaia. Rain was falling, and Blackburn, who was walking on the same side of the road and in the same direction, was struck by the left headlamp of the car.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19421228.2.21
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 3
Word Count
96FATALLY STRUCK BY CAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.