TWO MEN KILLED

Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 7

TWO MEN KILLED

LORRY OVER BANK COLLISION ON DANGEROUS CORNER THIRD SERIOUSLY INJURED (Per United Press Association.) Napier, June 1. Two men were killed, one seriously injured and one slightly injured when a motor truck went off the road in the vicinity of Waikari and down a hundred-foot bank to the creek bed below on Saturday afternoon. The victims were: Alexander Mclntosh, aged about 45, farmer of Putorino, married, with a family of six children, killed. William Johnston, aged 25 years, farm labourer, Putorino, whose parents reside in Dannevirke, killed. A. E. Porter, farmer of Putorino, seriously injured. He was conveyed to Napier Hospital. V. J. Barry, farmer of Putorino, bruises and shock. He was able to proceed home. Porter was the driver of the lorry and the party were returning from a meeting of the Domain Board of which Barry was chairman. Half a mile after leaving Waikari on the Napier-Wairoa road at a cutting, considered dangerous because the driver’s view is obstructed, they met a car driven by a man named Holden, employed at Kotemaori tunnel. Porter had the inside running and it appeared that the vehicles had room to pass. Holden’s car, however, grazed the rear of the truck and the impact turned the latter’s nose towards the bank over which it ran before Porter could gain control and turned over several times before landing on its wheels in the creek bed. •* Mclntosh and Johnston suffered fractured skulls. Barry, who was riding on the back of the lorry, was thrown off early and escaped lightly. Porter was picked up from under the lorry.