The Star: July 13, 2017
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12 Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
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ocial media used to<br />
ispel crash rumour<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
POLICE HAVE used<br />
social media to quash<br />
rumours a serious crash<br />
between Barrys Bay and<br />
the Hilltop Tavern on<br />
Sunday was caused by a<br />
foreign driver.<br />
Senior Constable<br />
Anita Osborne posted<br />
on the Akaroa Buy<br />
Sell and Exchange and<br />
Community Notice<br />
Board Facebook page:<br />
“Before there is any<br />
speculation about<br />
tourist drivers and bad<br />
motorbikes, not that I<br />
expect anyone would<br />
jump to conclusions<br />
would they, the driver<br />
of the car admits driver<br />
error and was very cooperative<br />
– and he lives<br />
in Canterbury.”<br />
A 31-year-old motorcyclist<br />
suffered lifethreatening<br />
injuries when<br />
he collided with a car on<br />
the Christchurch Akaroa<br />
Rd at about 4pm.<br />
He suffered an “open<br />
book pelvis fracture”<br />
intensive care paramedic<br />
for Westpac Rescue Mike<br />
McLintock said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> driver of the car<br />
was uninjured.<br />
Akaroa-based Senior<br />
Constable Osborne said<br />
yesterday she put the post<br />
up to let the locals know<br />
what was going on, but<br />
worded it the way she<br />
has to stop people from<br />
jumping to conclusions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> road was closed for<br />
about three hours after<br />
the crash.<br />
Senior Constable<br />
Osborne thanked<br />
emergency services in her<br />
post.<br />
“It was full on for a<br />
while there and everyone<br />
was amazing,” she<br />
posted.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been a spate<br />
of crashes recently in the<br />
Akaroa area.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re have been two<br />
drink driver related<br />
crashes and three driver<br />
error crashes,” she said.<br />
NASTY: Senior Constable Anita Osborne<br />
said the driver of the vehicle has<br />
admitted it was his error.<br />
•Facebook wit, p15<br />
Maddie home but no<br />
health answers yet<br />
• By Gabrielle Stuart<br />
MADDIE COLLINS is home<br />
again, after a two-week trip to a<br />
United States hospital to explore<br />
potential treatment.<br />
But many questions still remain<br />
unanswered over the health of the<br />
<strong>13</strong>-year-old from West Melton.<br />
Maddie and her family travelled<br />
to the <strong>The</strong> John Hopkins Hospital<br />
in Baltimore, hoping the treatment<br />
offered there would make<br />
it easier to find a replacement<br />
kidney.<br />
Maddie has been on dialysis for<br />
kidney failure most of her life, but<br />
learnt last month that the dialysis<br />
was putting so much strain on her<br />
heart, she was at risk of a heart<br />
attack.<br />
That made finding a replacement<br />
kidney more urgent.<br />
In 2012, her father, Adam Collins,<br />
donated one of his kidneys to<br />
Maddie, but her body rejected it.<br />
Maddie’s bother, Tom, and<br />
sister, Georgia, were both tested<br />
while in the US to see if they<br />
might be a match for Maddie.<br />
In an online update, Maddie’s<br />
mother, Sarah Manson Collins,<br />
said the family was now waiting<br />
for test results before they could<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
FLYING HOME: Maddie<br />
Collins with her father, Adam,<br />
and sister, Georgia, on the<br />
way back from the United<br />
States. <br />
say what Maddie’s options<br />
were.<br />
She said the doctors believed<br />
there were several treatment options,<br />
but it came at a cost – she<br />
said the cost of the treatment,<br />
which they initially estimated at<br />
$350,000, could almost double.<br />
Givealittle pages have already<br />
raised more than $90,000 for<br />
Maddie, and tickets for a fundraising<br />
night later this month<br />
have already sold out.<br />
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