HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER?
WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.
TAXI MAN SEES ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.— Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH. thin day
A car, the driver of which allegedly failed to stop, knocked down Mrs. Winifred Arnold, of Gloucester Street, on Saturday night at the corner of Victoria, Kilmore and Durham Street*.
Mrs. Arnold, who win* seriously injured, wm left lying in the roadway, but a taxi which woa proceeding in the opposite direction to the other car eaw the accident and picked her up. Although desirous of giving chase, the taxi driver mw that he could not turn his car •round in time to catch the other before it reached the intersection with Colombo Street, where it would be impossible to find it in the crush of traffic at the time. He therefore picked up the Injured woman and took her to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where her condition thie morning wee reported to be eeriotis.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 10
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