TOLL OF LIFE ON NEW SOUTH WALES’ ROADS WAS HEAVY AT WEEK-END

Wanganui Chronicle, 13 November 1950, Page 5

TOLL OF LIFE ON NEW SOUTH WALES’ ROADS WAS HEAVY AT WEEK-END

SYDNEY, Nov. 12 (Recd. 7 New South Wales had another black day on the roads yesterday, when five were killed and six injured in smashes bringing the total of road deaths in the State in the first 11 days of November to 32 and the year’s total to 559. Those killed included a motorcyclist and a pillion rider, who were burned to death after a collision with a truck, and another pillion rider thrown to the roadway after the collision.

Leslie Alexander McKeand, 26, [Olympic and Empire Games represenjtative who competed in the Empire Games at Auckland, was fatally inIjur.ed when the truck he was driving ■was involved in a collision. He was I thrown to the road and died later in hospital. ; In the accident in which two men fWere burned to death and a third critically injured, police arrested the truck driver, who was uninjured, and charged him with intoxicated driving. Insurance companies, who are suffering one of their worst business years, will raise premiums for motorcar insurance from the beginning of next month. It already costs a private motorist nearly £l9 to insure a car in a comprehensive cover for £7OO if the car is to be used in the Sydney Metropolitan district.