MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS. DRIVER FALLS INTO A HOLE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. When his motor-car overturned atthe corner of Palmer's Road .and River Road, New Brighton, at about 2 Mr Peter Grant, a single man aged: 23 driver and sole occupant of the car, had «. miraculous escape from death. He was returning to his home aiter taking home some friends from a party* In turning the corner his car Lett the road. and while still swinging round . the car ploughed into the grass a. few feet off the road, and then, striking; a mound of earth, somersaulted, com- • ino- to rest upside-down at the toot or, a clump of sapling willows, pinning Mr " Grant beneath, where he lay for nearly three hours in a semi-conscious state - before assistance came to him. In ordinary circumstances, Grant would have been killed. ' At the particular spot where his car came to rest there - is a large hole in the ground about a foot deep, and to one side of this there is a heap of debris. When the oar overturned and hit the ground hewas flung into the hole. The back ot the car, coming to rest above the mound, was held up about a foot, leay- - ing just enough clearance for Mr Grant to lie beneath.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 4
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