90-FOOT FALL.
MOTOR CYCLE CRASH.
LUCKY ESCAPE FOR TWO MEN
MACHINE EMBEDDED IN ROOF
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. When their motor cycle ran off the road and crashed downhill on to the roof of a bouse 90ft below, two young men, Mr. J. Nolan and Mr. T. Russell, were lucky to escape serious injury. The men were riding round the corner of Sutherland Road, overlooking Lyall Bay. Mr. Nolan was in the sidecar and Mr. Russell on the cycle. In swerving to avoid two children, the machine left the road and dashed down a steep, glassy slope below. Mr. Nolan at once scrambled out of the sidecar and jumped clear, escaping with a severe bruising, but his companion was unable to do so, and man and machine crashed through two picket fences and finally ended with a leap on to the tiled roof of a house at the bottom of the slope. Mrs. G. H. Charteris, wife of the owner of the house, startled by the crash, came out to find the cycle embedded in the roof. Mr. Russell was removed suffering with severe cuts and bruises.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 9
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18990-FOOT FALL. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 9
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