Ice causes accident
Westport reporter Three elderly Christchurch residents — two men and a woman — escaped with mi- . nor cuts and abrasions when their station waggon left the Lewis Pass Road on the Rahu Saddle after sliding on ice and plunged down a 10m bank to the Inangahua riverbed on Monday afternoon.
A caravan which was being towed by the station waggon finished on top of the vehicle. With the three persons, who declined to be named, was their cat. Terrified, it swam across the Inangahua River, where it was later rescued by constable N. Petrie, of the Reefton police, and eared for by traffic’ officer R. Walker until its owners were released from the Inangahua Hospital yesterday after observation. A fourth person was injured when the car in which he was travelling left the road on an icy patch at the Boyle River about 4 p.m. His condition was described by the Inangahua Hospital yesterday as satisfactory.
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Press, 27 May 1981, Page 2
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