AIRMAN KILLED
ACCIDENT NEAR AWANUI. Electric Telegraph—Press Association WHANGAREI, Lee. 26. Exactly a week after a similar fatality on the same stretch of road, an accident accompanied by loss of life occurred on the Kaitaia-Awanui road on Christmas Eve. The victim was:— Wireless Operator Keith Israel Blackburn, a member of the R.N Z - A.F., single, of Kaitangata. He received injuries from which he died in Kaitaia hospital on Christmas Day. Mr D. W. Hoey, baker and confectioner, Awanui, was driving a car from Kaitaia within a short distance of Awanui. Rain was falling, and Blackburn, who was walking on the same s*ide of the road and in th<P same direction, was struck by tlu; left headlamp of the car. He was taken to hospital unconscious and did not rally.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15235, 28 December 1942, Page 3
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