REMARKABLE ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 12

REMARKABLE ESCAPE

Three Boys in a Car

60FT. FALL DOWN BANK

Three passsengers in a sedan motorcar had a remarkable escape from serious injury on Saturday morning when their car crashed through a fence on the new Khandallah Road, fell down an almost perpendicular bank for a distance of 50 or 60 feet, bounced over a concrete water-tank, and came to rest at the bottom of a gully after tearing out half the end of the boilingdown works. The body of the car was stripped from the chassis, which turned upside down and caught fire. Constable Morrison arrived on the scene in time to see Norman Guscott. aged 16, the driver, climb from under the chassis in a very dazed condition. but otherwise not much hurt. 11'he two other passengers, Louie Guscott, aged 13. and Stewart Johnston, aged 17, who remained in the actual body of the car. receive abrasions and suffered severely from shock. As soon as the car crashed it caught fire, but one of the boys quickly suppressed the flames with a bucket of water from a nearby tank. The driver of the car, who is a student at St. Patrick’s College Silverstream, had been out to the school to get some of his belongings, and was returning to his home in Lochiel Ro id, Khandallah. Guscott stated that when the car was rounding a bend on its way up the Road it sk'ddeii and smashed through the fenc--The boys were attended to by Dr. Litchfield, and Constable Morrison stopped a passing car. which took thun to their homes. On a more detailed medical examination being made it was found that Norman Guscott was suffering from an injury to his bn ’k, but although he has been ordered to remain in bed for a few days, the lajury is not considered serious.