TOLL OF THE ROAD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 6

TOLL OF THE ROAD

TWO MEN KILLED TRUCK COLLIDES WITH TOWER POLE SUBSEQUENT ARREST OF DRIVER I United Pr**M» Association i PALMERSTON N.. 26th February. | One man was killed outright and another received head injuries from which he later died when a motor-truck struck a power-pole in Taonui street, Palmerston North, on Saturday night. Three other men on the vehicle escaped ! 1 uninjured. The driver was subsequently arrest- 1 ed The victims were : Over, Herbert William, piano tuner, married, of 118 Linton street. Palmerston North. Taylor, Arthur, upholsterer, Palmerston North. Both men were middle-aged. The truck, which was driven by L. C. De Vantier, aged 22, Palmerston North, was proceeding along Taonui street at about 10.30 on Saturday night when it : struck the power pole. De Vantier and two other men, L. K. Beals and K. C. Romley, were not hurt, but Over and ■ Taylor received severe head injuries. Over was removed in the Free Ambulance to the public hospital in an unconscious condition and died two hours later. It is understood that the victims were : riding on the tray of the truck, and the three who escaped injury were irt the cab. The tray, which received the full force of the impact, was torn from the ( chassis and thrown across the road. The driver was subsequently arrested. An inquest was opened this Tnorrting before Mr A. J. Graham, district coroner, and was adjourned after formal evidence of identification. ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED , CAR PLUNGES INTO CREEK NEW PLYMOUTH. 26th February. | Injuries that resulted in his death in j the New Plymouth Hospital this even- l ing were received by a passenger in a I car which left the New Piymouth-Wel-lington main road near Inglewood last I night and crashed into a creek. The , driver and the other passenger were injured. The victims were : Dead ArdCn, Erie, aged 33, married, of i New Plymouth. Injured Ranger. Miss Margaret, of New Ply- : mouth; condition satisfactory < Ashman. John Henry, of New Plymouth- driver of the car; condition | satisfactory. The party Was travelling to a dance in Inglewood at about 10.30 p.m. and. i on reaching the Inglewood Borough boundary, the driver failed to negotiate the turn on to the bridge over the Waiongona River. The car plunged through a fence and a hoarding and crashed about twenty feet down the bank into the water, which was up to the top of ! the doors of the car, an open sports model. i Rapid assistance was forthcoming, ind the injured were taken to the New Plymouth Public Hospital, where Mr i Arden died just before 7 o’clock this ' evening. The car. which was new, was I completely wrecked. 1