CAR OVER BANK
FALL OF 300 FEET
DRIVER THROWN OUT
, Running off the road while coming down the Wainui Hill at about 8 o'clock last night, a small open sports car came to rest 300 feet below, being badly damaged, but the driver, Frank Gurkert Duke, a railway workshops employee, of 34 Bay Street, Petone, was apparently thrown out as the car went' over the edge, and he escaped with head injuries . that were not serious.
A passing motorist who saw Duke lying unconscious on the roadside hastened to inform the Lower Hutt police, who arranged for the Free Ambulance to take the injured man "to hospital. Duke did not regain consciousness until he reached hospital, and meanwhile the police were searching the gorse and scrub through which the car had run in case anybody else had been, in tlie car. When Duke became conscious he was able to inform the hospital authorities that he had been alone in the car, and the police abandoned their search. ,
The condition of the injured man was reported today to be not serious.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 11
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180CAR OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 11
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