CAR SKIDS OVER BANK.
FIVE PERSONS INJURED. WOMAN'S LEO BROKEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Assi.ciuti<>n.l OAMAKU, Sunday. While travelling from Dunedin to Oamaru on Saturday morning a motor car with seven occupants went over a bank on the north side <>f Ilillgrovc, with the result that five persons were injured. The driver was Mr. Alfred Hicks, of Dunedin. and it appears that he had just passed another car and was turning back on to the road when his car got out of handd and skidded over the ban. Mr. Hicks and Master Cecil Davev escaped uninjured, Mr John Nicols. of Dunedin. received head injuries, and Mrs. Nicols a cut on the forehead and one or two rihs broken. Mrs. Ethel Hickbroke a small bone in one arm. and her daughtei, Rua Hicks, live years old, had her head injured Mrs. A." M Davey. ~i Dunedin, broke her left leg. Except Mr. Nicol?, those injured wentaken to Oamaru Hospital, where all are making satisfactory progii'*>.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 3
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162CAR SKIDS OVER BANK. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 3
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