Car tinges shower with excitement
PA Auckland Clint Porter needed a good long shower after seeing a car leave the road and smash into his fiat, only inches from the bathroom he was about to step into. “I was just getting ready to get into the shower and I saw this car coming and I thought ‘ph, oh’,” the Mormon elder from Utah said. “It was really close — come to New Zealand for excitement, huh?” Mr Porter was first on the scene — lavalava hastily wrapped round hinself — to tend’to the elderly driver of the car
which left Great North Road at the Kirby Street intersection on Sunday evening and careered across a neighbouring section and into his flat. The driver was taken to Auckland Hospital with only minor injuries. Mr Porter, a rodeo rider before coming to New Zealand 21 months ago, wasn’t too worried about his own safety when he saw the car hurtling towards him but he thought he’d lost his shower for a moment “I thought he was headed straight for the bathroom,” he said; wasMinkingj lucky I jgas not In it.” .
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Press, 22 January 1988, Page 26
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