Explosive chemical reaction
PA Wellington Darryl Boswell’s schoolholiday : • 'chemistry experiment went badly wrong yesterday, leaving the Upper Hutt sixth-former lying in Hutt Hospital with surgeons repairing his mangled arm. Darryl, aged 16, and his brother, Damian, aged 14, tried mixing two chemicals, in a basement experiment, to see what the reaction was.. ...
The two boys were flung 3m into the street, glass splinters speckling their faces, and hands and their fingers buckled from an explosion far greater than either expected. • ?’
Pools of blood formed on the footpath as neighbours frantically tried to stem the bleeding 'until ambulances arrived.' Mrs Glennis Boswell said that both her sons'would be all right. Darryl’s left ’arm was badly injured but he would regain the use of it.
Damian was at home recovering last evening.
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Press, 11 September 1980, Page 4
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