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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 8

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HOLIDAY PERIOD ACCIDENTS TWO ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITAL Although hopes had been entertained that this would be an accidentfree Christmas, yesterday’s admissions to hospital have givdh the period an unfortunate start. There were three motor accidents, and two people were admitted to hospital, one being placed on the dangerously ill list. * At 6.15 p.m. Mervyn Winter, married, aged 24, who lives at 20 Wilkie road, was admitted to the hospital suffering from extensive injuries to the chest. He received them when the small car he was driving ran into a bridge at Brighton. Two passengers in the * car, which was extensively damaged, were not injured, but the driver was reported to be on the dangerously ill list at a late hour last night. Beatrice Berryman, a middle-aged woman who lives at 14 Forbes street, Maryhill, was admitted at 8 p.m. suffering from lacerations tq the face. she was involved, in an accident between two cars at tiie corner of Tainui road and Cavell street. Neither the driver of the car in which Mrs Berryman was travelling, George Arthur Berryman, nor the,, other driver, Henry Arthur Hirt, was injured. L Ross King, who lives in Cargill road, was not insured when the car he was driving went over a bank at Waverley but a man named Cleveland, who feu from his bicycle in Hope street, was admitted to hospital for treatment, after which he was discharged..