PLUNGE OVER BANK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 9

PLUNGE OVER BANK.

SEVENTY FEET DROP. MAN'S BACK BROKEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TAUMARUNUT, this day. A car driven by Joseph Dov man, aped 16, at Piopiotea West yesterday feil down a 70ft bank. Dow man. who had influenza, is stated t.-> have fainted just before the accident. As a result of the car's plunge from the road. Di.uinan suffered minor cuts. Passengers in the car were Dowman s mother and Mr. Harry Pattinson. Mrs. Dowman escaped with bruises, cuts and shook but .Mr. Pattinson was throw-, out of the car, which passed over him, breaking his back. Mr. Pattinson, who is a returned soldier and a fanner, was taken to hospital. He is a married man yrith o#e child. _