Two Dead and Nine Injured When Car And Van Collide

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1939, Page 6

Two Dead and Nine Injured When Car And Van Collide

WEEK-END CASUALTIES

: •' „• [Special to “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND, This Day. MAN AND A WOMAN WERE KJ LLED AND SEVEN OTHERS WERE INJURED YESTERDAY AFTERN CON IN A COLLISION NEAR THE / WAIKUMETE CEMETERY. , The victims were: — Killed. Mr John Kyle Caldwell, aged 65, married, of 202 Kohimarama Road, Kohi- /; marama. Miss Flora McKenzie Brown, middle aged, of Rhodes Avenue, Mount Albert, an employee of Balfour, Irvine and Webster, Ltd., opticians, of Karangahape Road, who w T ,as killed outright. i; •_ Injured. Mr Frank Herbert Hildreth, aged 47, of Kohimarama; who suffered concussion, facial injuries and shock. His condition last night was serious. Mr Norman Jordan, aged 30, of Sand ringham; concussion and lacerated 'f'N: scalp. Condition fairly seriou s. Mrs Hilda Nancarrow, aged 46, of Ne w Lynn; condition not serious. Thomas Nancarrow, aged six; head injuries. Sydney Nancarrow, aged seven; injuries to jaw. Miss Hildii Nancarrow, aged 18; shock and abrasions. Mr!Frank Nancarrow, aged 52; abrasions.

noise of the impact was heard several hundred yards' away. The collision was so severe that the bodywork of the light motor van, driven by Mr Caldwell, which collided with a heavy car,;,flew to pieces, and was scattered in sections on both sides of the road. Completely Demolished.

So completely was the van demolished that only the bare chassis, buckled and smothered with broken glass, fruit and assorted foodstuffs, remained at thei roadside.

The larger vehicle was not so extensively damaged, although the front was considerably battered, the windscreen broken and the interior in disorder.

Tragic circumstances are that another son, of Mr and Mrs Nancarrow, George Nancarrow, aged 15, was drowned at Avondale last year, and that Mrs Caldwell, the wife of one of those:* fatally injured, is at present abroad.