The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Tuesday, March 28, 1967 — There were no fatal accidents in Rhodesia over the Easter holiday. This is the best record for three years. But 30 people died violently in the Republic, 20 on the roads. About 33 were injured on the roads. Few accidents were reported to the Bulawayo police none involved serious, a police spokesman said last night. Three minor accidents were reported yesterday, Mrs Hilda Fourie, a passenger in her husband’s car was admitted to hospital for four minor injuries to her shoulder. Her husband, of 65 Balfour Avenue, Bellevue, was in collision with a car driven by Mr Derrick Scott Eddie, of 16a Cyprus Drive, Newton, at the intersection of Balfour and Cunningham Roads, Bellevue. Michael Ian Price, of 506 Chester House, was stung by a wasp as he was driving along Hillside Road near Bradfield Shopping Centre. His car crashed into a lamp post and was slightly damaged, but he was not injured. Mark Vlahakis , from Salisbury, and Peter Henry Fouche, from Pretoria, escaped uninjured when their cars collided about 12 miles out on the Salisbury road, police said. The first Esther road death in the Natal inland area occurred when an unidentified white man fell off his motor cycle on the national road 18 miles north of Ladysmith. At Hilton, near Maritzburg, five members of a family were injured yesterday afternoon when a tyre of their car burst and the car left the road. They were on their way home from Mooi River and all were admitted to Grey’s Hospital, Maritzburg. The latest fatal road accident occurred last night when two cars collided at Voortekkershoogte, near Pretoria, and a 13-year-old girl, a Miss Kirkwood, of Valhalla was killed. Two men and two women were injured.