UNUSUAL ACCIDENT.
THREE CARS INVOLVED. _ INSPECTOR’S VEHICLE • DAMAGED'. J A collision involving two private. motor-cars and a Transport Department inspector’s car occurred on the Main South Road, a mile and a half south of Rolleston, about 9 o’clock on Sunday evening. The inspector’s car, which was stationary, was struck broadside on and knocked back several feet into a gorse hedge, this sidd being fairly extensively damaged. No one . was injured in the accident. The inspector (Mir D. D. Burdett) had stopped a motor-car which was travelling without a tail-light, and had parked his own ear several yards behind it, well off the bituriient. Two other cars, one approaching from the « north (this one driven by a resident . of Ashburton), and one from the south collided head-on when they were opposite the car the inspector , had stopped. One became out of conti'ol,"described a semi-circle on the road, and struck the inspector’s car. The ears ■which collided wore .con- „ siderably damaged. ■ 1
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 129, 14 March 1939, Page 4
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