SAVED TWO CHILDREN
No Thanks From Mother
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 15
Senior Fireman-driver C. Poland, of the Birkenhead Fire Station, glanced out of the window of the station soon after 1 p.m. today to see a driverless car pass the station and head for a steep gully on the other side of the road. Hearing screams coming from the car, Mr Poland raced out and reached the car just as it was about to plunge over the bank.
He wrenched open the front passenger door, knocked aside a two-year-old boy who was crouched over the foot pedals and applied the handbrake just as the car was about to topple down a 100-foot gradient. “I only just made it in time,” he said. "Another few seconds and the car would have rolled down the slope " Mr Poland said there was a three-year-old girl screaming in the back seat. The car had travelled about 30 yards down the road before it was
stopped. • The children’s mother had not thanked him for hia action.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30211, 16 August 1963, Page 14
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