MR COATES IN COLLISION
NO SERIOUS INJURIES RECEIVED ACCIDENT WHEN ON WAY TO SHOW [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, March 15. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates narrowly escaped injury when the small sedan car he was driving collided with another car about 13 miles north of Kaukapakapa shortly before 11 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr Coates, who was accompanied by his wife, was travelling from his home at Matakohe to the Kumeu show, and the collision occurred at a dangerous'bend in the road, Mr Coates’s car was struck headon by a large sedan driven by Mr N. A. Gazzard, a traveller for Kempthorne, Prosser, Ltd., who was accompanied by his sister-in-law. Both of the cars were extensively damaged and had to be removed by a breakdown waggon. Their occupants, however, escaped serious injury with bruising and bad shakings. They were given first aid by two local residents, who later took Mr Coates and his wife to the show m their own car.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 12
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