MANY ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28269, 6 May 1957, Page 10

MANY ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND

Heavy Rain Reduces Visibility

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 5. Heavy rain last evening was partly responsible for six major and minor motor accidents in the city from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. Eight persons were injured in five of the accidents. A man walking on crutches was knocked down in Pitt street near the ambulance station at 6.20 p.m. He is Robert Bruce McKinley, aged 56, single, a painter, of 27 Pitt street, who was admitted to Middlemore Hospital with a broken right leg, a suspected break of the left leg, and cuts. His condition tonight was satisfactory.

Twenty minutes earlier, David John Aitken, aged 30, married, a fitter, of Atiamuri, suffered a broken left ankle when he was knocked down by a motor-cyclist at Royal Oak. He was admitted to Middlemore Hospital. At 6.15 p.m.. Robert Desmond le Prou. aged 36. of 86 Main Highway, Ellerslie, was knocked down by a car outside the Ellerslie theatre. He was taken to Middlemore Hospital with a broken left leg.

Three people were injured when two cars collided at the corner of Dominion and Balmoral roads at 6.22 p.m. One of the people. Mrs Flora Korff, aged 52. of 271 Dominion road, was admitted to Auckland Hospital with concussion and shock. Victims from several other accidents were treated at the casualty departments of the Auckland and Green Lane hospitals. Shortly after midnight, two women were knocked down by a car in Dominion road; early in the afternoon two children were knocked down by a car at Three Kings, but were uninjured, and, at 12.40 a.m., a car capsized and caught fire at the corner of Great North and Blockhouse Bay roads. The Jast motor accident occurred at 3.35 a.m., when a car driven by William Skinner, of Onehunga, hit a telegraph pole in Pah road. Mount Roskill. Mr Skinner was admitted to Auckland Hospital with head injuries.