Boy’s leg crushed
CN.2 Press Association) WELLINGTON. 1 A five-year-old boy was! freed by ’ firemen using a hydraulic ram when one of his legs was trapped by the car on the private tramway to his home above Evans Bay Parade on Wednesday morning. The boy. John Van Gorp, [slipped, and was caught be-’ , I tween the car and the eonicrete platform. , The Wellington Fire Bri--1 gade was called after an ; ambulance officer found that ■ mechanical equipment would 1 be needed to free the bov, ' ['whose leg was being crushed, j : Firemen used a hydraulic 1 ram to force the car away i from the concrete platform,i > and the ambulance officer, Mr D. S. Jenkins, adminis- ! tered a pain-killing gas. > The boy was taken to hos- > pital by ambulance, suffering ; from severe crush injuries to I his leg, and shock.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 13
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