A light car (above) ended in the front garden of a Lyttelton house on Friday night after having careered driverless down a steep street The owner of the car, Mr Graeme Dowling, and bis two passengers were trying to bounce the front wheels out of the gutter where they had stuck when they were turning round at the top of Oxford street about 8.50 p-m. Though the hand brake was on, it was unable to hold the car once it had been freed from the gutter. The car travelled about 100 yards and demolished the fence before coming to a stop inches before dropping over a retaining wall in Mr W. J. Sergison’s front garden at 82 Oxford street
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31441, 7 August 1967, Page 20
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