MAN PINNED UNDER CAR
A man was pinned under la car for about 20 minutes last night after an accident in which the car rolled over near St Matthew’s Church corner on the Old West Coast Road about 19 miles from Christchurch. The man, Maxwell Marshall Brown, aged 50, of 87 Fisher Avenue, Beckenham, was apparently thrown from the car in the accident. He was trapped half submerged in a water race with only his head and shoulders free. Others at the scene quickly blocked the water race upstream to prevent Mr Brown being drowned. The car came to rest with the front partly supported by a fence, taking some of the weight off the trapped man.
Two breakdown trucks at each end of the car lifted it about eight inches off Mr Brown enabling St John ambulance men to free him. He was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital with head, rib and leg injuries. The Christchurch fire brigade's emergency tender turned out to provide lighting at the scene.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 18
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