Car plunges off Summit Road
An alert detective in a police patrol car yesterday noticed a car which had plunged off the Summit Road, killing its driver. The car left the road below Mount Cavendish on Wednesday night. The dead man was Bryan Andrew Walker, aged 19, of Bexley. The car had crashed over a steel barrier and is believed to have first hit the ground 75m below the road. The driver was thrown from the vehicle, which continued to roll down the hillside for another 75m. A spokesman for the Christchurch police said that the accident was believed to have happened some time on Wednesday night.
The car was not visible from the Summit Road and it was first seen by a
detective who was travelling on the Lyttelton Tunnel Road about midday yesterday. The vehicle was hard to distinguish from that distance but the detective arranged for a police patrol car to check. It was then that the man’s body and the badly damaged car were found. A cable was used to haul the vehicle back up the hillside before it was removed by a tow truck yesterday afternoon. Members of the Fire Service and the police who helped recover the vehicle said that it was one of the most badly damaged they had seen.
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