FIFTY-TWO DEATHS
ACCIDENTS IN PAST SIX MONTHS
MANY MOTORING MISHAPS
CHRISTCHURCH July 1
Motoring mishaps or drowning have accounted for' fifty-two-deaths in the Canterbury and West Coast provinces ’in the first six months of this year. Thirty-six of these deaths were during the. first three months of the year, but the addition of. sixteen names since then has not lowered .the monthly average very greatly. The coming or winter and the consequent loss of popularity ( of the beaches has . caused a falling off in the risk of drowning accidents, and there has been only one death from this cause during L ' l ' n T ' ,oe t quarter. As an offset to this, however, motoring accidents have siiown an increase. In the past three months there have been ten fatal accidents 'through .collisions of various ' types, as well as a largte number of accidents, in which people have suffered it&iJKSy greater -.PiV lesser degree. , Motor-cars were conoerned in nine cases and motor-cycles in four. Two. cyclists and tour pedestrians stiffened. A noteworthy feature is that in tearly every case of a motoring totality, a case has later been brought against one of. theparticipants by the police,
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1932, Page 5
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195FIFTY-TWO DEATHS Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1932, Page 5
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