CAR FALLS 100FT FROM ROAD

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 10

CAR FALLS 100FT FROM ROAD

DRIVER SUFFERS MINOR ABRASIONS When the car driven by Gary Tall, of 22 Broadbent street, ran off Dyers’ Pass road at 3.30 a.m. yesterday and crashed down the hillside for about 100 feet, Mr Tall escaped practically uninjured. When he described his accident to a constable at the Central Police Station later in the morning it was found that the only marks on him were a few slight abrasions on the right shoulder. When Mr Tall was about a mile and a half above the Sign of the Takahe on his way to the Sign of the Kiwi, the car lights failed as he was rounding a bend. The car went off the road, knocked out a white post, struck a wire fence, tumbled oyer it, and rolled over two or three times before coming to a stop on its wheels among rocks more than 100 feet below the road. Mr Tall got out of the car badly shaken, but with no more serious injury than the slight abrasions on the shoulder. A motorist who was driving towards Christchurch some hours later saw the car, and telephoned the police. The constable who went to the scene of the accident began to search the scrub for a body. He was surprised to find that Mr Tall had escaped practically unscathed.

CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN DRIVER AND PASSENGER SLIGHTLY INJURED Jennings Shaw, of 3 Morrison avenue, and his passenger. Nora Groves, of 437 Selwyn street, escaped with minor injuries when the car driven by Mr Shaw was struck by a train at -the Grove road crossing about 2.55 a.m. yesterday. The car was, flung some distance, and was badly damaged. Neither the driver of the car nor his passenger had to be admitted to