ACCIDENTS
HASTINGS CAR CRASH. HASTINGS, September 9. When a live-seater car, in which they were travelling, left the main road at Pakipaki, and crashed into a concrete culvert, the occupants, two young women and a man were ah injured, The victims were:— Frank O’Rourke, single, 25, of Te Kura, near Otane; severe head injuries, condition fairly serious. Mary Jane Richardson, married, 23, of Racecourse Road, Waipukurau, facial cuts and, shock. Miriam Christensen, single, 19, of Takapau Road, Waipukurau, facial cuts and shock. Neither of the women was seriously hurt. The injured persons were taken to the Napier Hospital, by ambulance.
PILLION RIDER HURT. CHRISTCHURCH, September 9. Keith Woodfield of 134 Hoon Hay Road, suffered a fracture of the skull, when the motorf-cycle on which he was a pillion rider ran into the back of a taxi in High Street, near the intersection of Manchester Street, about 8 o’clock on Saturday evening. Pie wa's admitted to hospital, where his condition this evening was given as still serious.
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Grey River Argus, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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