NINE INJURED IN COLLISION
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 17.
Eight adults and one child were injured in a head-on collision between two cars on the Great South road at Westfield at 10.45 tonight. Ambulances rushed the injured to Middlemore Hospital. At a late hour the names of the injured were not known.
Mr C. Shortland, of Glen Innes, who witnessed the accident, described it as “the most terrific crash I have ever seen.’’ He had to break his way into one car to get a boy and three other occupants out.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 8
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