INJURED GIRL PINNED IN CAR
Cutting Torch In Release (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 19. Miss Raewyn Souster, aged 20. of Mt. Albert, was severely injured at Takapuna at midnight on Saturday when a car she was travelling in hit a telegraph pole. She was pinned in the front seat, and men worked for an hour with levers, jacks and an oxyacetylene torch to cut the twisted steel and get her free. Miss Souster suffered severe head and leg injuries and was taken to Middlemore Hospital. The driver. Colin Lucena, aged 25, of Mount Eden, who was thrown out of the car, was admitted to North Shore Hospital. The pole the car hit was knocked forward several feet and power and telephone lines came down. Flames shot from the wires on the ground. The damaged car was alive with wires touching it. and a North Shore Transport Company bus passing by caught the wires and dragged them clear. The tyres of both vehicles insulated them. Christine Hodgkinson wrapped the injured man in blankets and looked after him until the ambulance arrived. -She is the girl who recently helped to save her mother’s life by giving first-aid after her mother received a severe electric shock.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28951, 20 July 1959, Page 10
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