CAR SOMERSAULTS.
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. \ FALLS OVER BANK AND j RIGHTS ITSELF. SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT, <By Telegraph—Special to •'-Star.") r CAMBRIDGE, this day. - The three occupants, Harold Joseph ( robin, of Auckland, William Crow and-j lis wife, of Putaruru. had a miraculous] iscape from death at 8 o'clock this | c norning, when a car, in which they were | 1 ravelling from Putaruru to Hamilton, _ vent over a 75 foot bank in Fisher's I . suliy, on the main Cambridge-Tirau J _oad, eight miles from Cambridge. J It appears that the car failed to nego- ' ;iate a sharp corner and the vehicle somersaulted down the declivity and • ahded on its wheeds in a creek below ' yith the occupants still in the car. I Mrs. Crow sustained a fearful gash on, ' ,he forehead, a broken nose and other < ninor injuries. Tobin, who was driving, j' iuffered a broken rib. Crow was the j < most fortunate, receiving only slight < -.juries. All were suffering severely from. 3 shock when brought into Dr. Ritchie's ' surgery. Later, the injured persons! { .. ore conveyed to the Waikato Hospital. [ i The car was badly damaged. <
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Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 8
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