ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

ANOTHER MOTORING FATALITY. A young man was killed instantly when a three-seater car carrying four adults and two children, and ’ loaded with camping gear, left the Matakitaki road at Carluke’s cutting, 17 miles from Murchison, late yesterday afternoon and crashed 72ft through trees and scrub into a creek bed. The other members of the party, which was travelling from Christchurch to Kaiterjteri tor a camping holiday, escaped with minor injuries. The man killed was Francis Taylor, aared 18 years, of 26 Grafton street, Lmwood, Christchurch. The driver was Francis William Jukes, of Albert Terrace, Christchurch, who had as passengers his wife and two children, his mother, and Taylor. , t . ■ The accident occurred on a straight stretch of road where a bank dropped steeply to the creek. Taylor and Mrs Jukes, sen., wqre sitting m-the dicky seat. The car apparently somersaulted several times, th© passengers )>eing thrown out near the bottom,, of the bank. People in a passing car rendered assistance. When a doctor arrived from Murchison; Taylor was dead. The other . members of the party received medical attention, but none” was admitted to hospital. ,