TOLL OF THE MOTOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1940, Page 4

TOLL OF THE MOTOR

WEEKEND FATALITIES TRAGEDY AT CHRISTCHURCH. WOMAN KILLED BY CAR. (Bj' Telegraph—Press Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, May 5. Miss Lilian Hay iForbes, aged 60, Tai Tapu, died last evening after being struck by a motor-car. Death is reported to have been almost instantaneous. FATALLY INJURED. CYCLIST DIES IN HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association., HASTINGS, May 5. A cyclist who was injured in .Karamu Road at about 6.30 last evening died in hospital an hour and a half later. He was John James Flynn, aged 64. freezing worker, Hastings. He had been riding towards Hastings and it. is presumed that his injuries were received either when he fell off his cycle when a motorist collided w A b, him, or when he was struck by a /"?r while he was lying on the road after having fallen from his cycle. ■ KILLED INSTANTLY. MAN THROWN FROM MOTOR CYCLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, May 5. Mr Donald MacKenzie, aged 26, a married man with two children, residing at Makarewa, was killed instantaneously when he'was thrown from a motor-cycle. His brother-in-law, Mr Thomas Gray, who was riding pillion, was also thrown from the machine and was admitted to hospital with head injuries.

Mr MacKenzie apparently lost control when the rfibtor-cycle struck potholes in the road.