HEAD-ON COLLISION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6

HEAD-ON COLLISION

TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND FIVE INJURED MOTOR-CAR AND VAN CRASH OUTSIDE WAIKUMETE CEMETERY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 11. A man and a woman were killed and five other people were injured when a light van anti a heavy motorcar met in a head-on collision on the Great North Road outside Waikumete Cemetery this afternoon. The man is believed to be Mr J. K. Caldwell, Auckland, and the woman has not been identified. Both were travelling in the van. The injured are: — Mr Frank Herbert Hildreth, Kohimarama Road, concussion and facial and internal injuries. Mr Norman Jordan, Kitchener Road, Sandringham, concussion and lacerated scalp. Mrs Hilda Nancarrow, Seabrook Avenue, New Lynn, lacerated knee. Her sons. Thomas, aged 6, head injuries, and Sidney, aged 7, fractured jaw. In addition to other members of the family, Mr Frank Nancarrow, and his daughter, Miss Hilda Nancarrow, suffered minor abrasions, severe bruises and shock.

The impact was most severe, the body of the van ’being smashed to pieces and scattered on both sides of the road, leaving the bare chassis. Two ambulances were needed to take the injured to the Auckland Hospital. MAN KNOCKED DOWN. INJURIES PROVE FATAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON,. This Day. Fatal injuries were received by a pedestrian who was knocked down by a motor-car while crossing the Hutt Road at the Petone level crossing on Saturday evening. He was Thomas Albert Stanford, married, aged 72, of 30 Queen Street, Petone. Mr Stanford was crossing from the motor service station to the footpath near the railway line-in company with his son-in-law at 5.15 when a motoi’ car travelling from the direction of Wellington struck him. His companion was not hit. The Free Ambulance took Mr Stanford to hospital with an injury to his chest and abrasions on his face. He died at 2.5 a.m. yesterday. CYCLIST’S DEATH. ACCIDENT AT HASTINGS. (By Tclcgcaph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, June 11. An elderly man received fatal injuries when he was knocked down by a car while cycling along Karamu Road, at 6 o’clock this evening. He was Mr William Edwards, Fenwick Street, Hastings. .Mr Edwards received severe head injuries and was removed to Hastings Memorial Hospital unconscious, death occurring at 7.30 p.m. FATALITY NEAR ISLINGTON. PEDESTRIAN DIES FROM INJURIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. Severe injuries, from which he died on the way to the Christchurch Public Hospital, were suffered by a pedestrian in a collision with a car about 5.15 p.m. on Saturday. He was Mr William Henry Payne, an elderly man of Islington. The accident occurred on the Main South Road near Islington.