YOUNG MAN KILLED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 24, 27 December 1945, Page 6

YOUNG MAN KILLED

ACCIDENT NEAR MURCHISON. (Press Assn) NELSON, Dec. 27. 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 70ft. through trees and scrub into. a creek-bed. The other members of the party, which was travelling from Christchurch to Kaiteriteri for a camping holiday, escaped with minor injuries. The man killed was Mr Francis Taylor, aged 18, of 28 Grafton Street, Linwood, Christchurch. The driver was Mr F. W. Jukes, of Albert Terrace, Christchurch, who had as passengers his wife and their two children, his mother, and Mr Taylor. The accident occurred on a straight stretch of road where the bank dropped away steeply to a creek. Mr Taylor and' Mrs Jukes, senior, were sitting in the dicky seat of the car which apparently somersaulted several times, the passengers being thrown out near the bottom of the bank. People in a passing car rendered assistanqe, but when a Murchison doctor arrived Mr Taylor was dead. The other members of the party received medical attention, but none was taken to hospital.