THROWN OUT OF JEEP

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22785, 8 January 1944, Page 6

THROWN OUT OF JEEP

Nurse Killed And Colleague Seriously Injured (N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND. Jan. 6. Two nurses were injured, one fatally, when the jeep in which they were riding struck a stone wall on the seaward side of the waterfront road near Kohimarama wharf about 10 o’clock last night. They were; — Nurse Aleida Johanna Barbara Bonnie Smith, aged 22, of Point Chevalier, who died in hospital; and Nurse Ann Maud Alpin, aged 24, of Charles Street. Napier, who suffered concussion and facial injuries. She was in a serious condition today. When the jeep hit the wall both nurses were thrown from the front seat on to the hard stone beach 15 feet below. An American serviceman and another nurse, Miss Marguerite Carpenter, of Auckland, who were in the rear seat of the jeep, and the driver, also an American serviceman, were not thrown out of the vehicle and were not injured. After striking the wall the jeep skidded along it and back on to the road, and stopped after it had travelled two chains from the first point of impact. Little damage was done to the vehicle.