Close brush as wind splits tree
Nelson reporter A young woman had a lucky escape when a heavy tree'limb crashed on to the car in which she was sitting, in Nelson yesterday. Miss Toni Blincoe, of 83 Martin Street, Monaco, Nelson, was attending a staff picnic of Anchor Dorman, Ltd, at Branford Park, when a limb from a poplar tree crashed on to two parked cars in a violent wind gust about 3 p.m. The limb flattened the driver’s side of one car, centimetres from where Miss Blincoe was sitting, in the passenger's seat. She suffered lacerations and bruising, but was otherwise unhurt.
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Press, 13 December 1982, Page 1
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