SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Cpbess association telkobam.)
DANNEVIUKE, April 16
Rather a sensational motor mishap occurred early yesterday' morning, 'vhen a car containing Ivan L. ,Knight, a young airman who was in the recent' forced landing at N©w Brighton, arid L. Go wan, were proceeding south from Dannevirke, crashed into the side. of .the bride at liawhiti street. The high-powered. Packard stripped the whole-side of the protecting rails and traversed the structure with two wheels on it and two wheels over the ddge> of the bridge, which is 30ft long, over a creek 30ft below.
But for the outside wheels bumping ' he projecting stay planics the car must have toppled over. It went a couple of chains beyond the bridge before it was pulled up. It then caught fire. Neither of "the occupants was hurt, but the car was extensively damaged.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17740, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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