ROAD FATALITIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 5

ROAD FATALITIES

AUCKLAND MAN KILLED NEAR TARAWERA CAP. CRASHES OVER STEEP. HILLSIDE. FALL OF NEARLY 150 FEET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, June. 18. While travelling unaccompanied toward Napier during the weekend an Auckland man was killed when his three-seater car went over a bank. He was Malcolm Stuart Aimer, . service driver, aged 39, Clouvern Road, Remuera. Tyre marks showed that the car swerved off the road about a mile north of Tarawera and careered down a steep hillside for 145 feet before coming to rest badly smashed. The accident was discovered about 10.30 this morning by a Maori, Mr Reginald Ihaia, Tarawera, who reported it to the Tarawera Hotel licensee. The police were summoned, and Constable Williamson, of Port Ahuriri Police Station, left Napiei- with f an ambulance at 11.30 a.m., returning with the body late this afternoon. Death had occurred instantaneously, severe head wounds being inflicted. A watch carried by Mr Aimer had stopped at 5.15, 'but it is not known if this indicates the time of the accident to be early in the morning or Saturday evening. MAN KILLED OUTRIGHT ACCIDENT NEAR KAIKOURA. TWO OTHERS IN HOSPITAL. CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. One man was killed instantly and two men injured when the motor-car in which they were travelling ran over the side of the Blue Duck oneway bridge 12 miles north of K<?ikoura on the Main North Road early on Saturday evening. The victims were:— 'Killed.—William Thompson, Aniseed, aged 40; fractured skull. Injured. —William McDonald, Aniseed, aged about 30; severe facial injuries. William Arthur, Aniseed, aged about 33 years; severe facial injuries. Both the injured men are patients at Kaikoura Hospital. STRUCK BY YAN VICTIM FATALLY INJURED. GISBORNE PEDESTRIAN'S DEATH. GISBORNE, June 17. Injuries from which he later died in hospital were received by Thomas Wright Mushter, 67. when he was struck by a light delivery truck last evening. Mr Mushter was crossing the road to visit a friend when he was struck by a van owned by J. E. McKinley and Co., and driven by Hugh Ernest Clark.