HEAD-ON COLLISION
MOTOR CARS MEET ON BRIDGE. A FARMER KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. April 12. A man was killed and four otherpeople were injured, three of them severely, when two motor-cars met in a head-on collision on a concrete bridge on the main road near Albany this afternoon. The man killed was Leigh Vipond, aged 45. married, a farmer of Whangaparaoa. The injured were: Mrs Victoria Harnett, aged 57, Silverdale, severe head and internal "injuries; condition serious. Bertram Duncan McKenzie Harnett, aged 65, farmer, husband of Mrs Harnett. concussion and fracture of the right arm; condition not serious. Mrs Sanders. ,Te Hana, internal injuries; condition not serious. I. A. Titchener, 25 Minnehaha Avenue, Takapuna, abrasions. Of the four injured people, all were admitted to the Auckland Hospital, except Titchener, who was only slightly hurt. Two young women relatives of Mrs Sanders escaped without injury. So severe was the impact that the two motor-cars were locked together on the bridge, blocking it for use by traffic for some time. Both vehicles were extensively damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1940, Page 4
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174HEAD-ON COLLISION Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1940, Page 4
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