NARROW ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 160, 2 April 1931, Page 11

NARROW ESCAPE

Motorist Pinned Down By His Own Cai: CRASH DOWN 40FT. BANK Two cars collided on the HaywardsPahautanui road late on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. J. W. Andrews, a builder, of Lower Hutt, and president of the Lower Hutt Chamber of Commerce, who was driving one of the cars, narrowly escaped with his life. Mr. Andrews was travelling on the outer side of a bend about four miles from Pahautanul when bis car came into collision with a car driven by Mrs. A. M. Taylor, of Knight’s Road, Lower Hutt. It crashed through a fence and rolled over several times before it came to rest, right side up, about forty feet below the road. As the car rolled over, Mr. Andrews was thrown out, and had his head caught between the car and the hillside. But for the fact that the ground was swampy he might have been killed. His face and chest were badly bruised. He was removed to the Knight’s Road Hospital, Lower Hutt. A passenger in the car received a severe shaking and bruises. Not until help was forthcoming from Mr. W. R. Pearce, Messrs. Cook Brothers, who are nearby farmers, and the occupants of Mrs. Taylor’s car, could Mr. Andrews be extricated. The car was completely wrecked.