CAR GOES OVER A BANK.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1921, Page 2

CAR GOES OVER A BANK.

INCIDENT OF MOTOR SI'OKTS. A minor mishap, but one which ha.l the elements of a serious accident, bt'fiil a party of motorist* who were to have befji competitors at tin Muriwai Beach mutor rail's cm Saturday. They went t.. Muriwai >»n a Daimler ear which was stripped for taking part in the hi;; ra c. but on the way broke a dumb iron, which put ttio machine out of condition tor rai-injr. A,, the- party was xtartins: l>afk for town after the raers the car .-tru.-k trouble in iieirotiat in-.' the rouffli hillside ■track in the bush immrdiatclr behind the beach, and went, nil [lie Ini'k into the jrully. The no'iipiintK. three ymmj; men. were thrown out, a It.] the driver. Mr. Chitty. failed to [rot ipute clenr and liad ■)<U h'odv painfully lir.iised by striking either the steering wheel or trees in the fall. lie wot, attended to In an nnibui lance man, ulin feared thai some were broken, but wlion uiven a lift to town where a doctor *\::- ennsiiltrtl ho wis found t,> he stiirerin.: r.n'v fr. m bruises and shock. The c:ir, wiiicii onnfs from the parap.' of Miwsm. i . l.i'.tle and Sons was hauled back *o the ira.-k tliis inornine, und hroujfhi homo little t !ir> worse for the experience.