CRASHED 100 FEET
Motorist’s Lucky Escape By Telegraph—Press Association. Marton. January 20. A miraculous escape was experienced yesterday morning by Walter Manning, a well-known stock-buyer, when he was returning to Marton from Turakina Valley in a car. On a narrow portion of the road he met another car, and in endeavouring to pass it went over the bank, crashing through a scrub fence and dropping 100 feet into the Makohau Stream below, his ear coming to rest upside down. By a lucky chance the car’s progress was checked at the last moment, and, instead of entering the deep water side-on, it straddled tlie bank out .of the water sufficiently to allow Mr. Manning to escape through a window. He was assisted to the road by the other motorist and was brought to Marton, suffering from shock and only minor injuries. The salvage of the car will present cons! d ora bl e d iffletil tl es.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 11
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156CRASHED 100 FEET Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 11
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