CAR CRASHES DOWN BANK

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 250, 19 July 1937, Page 10

CAR CRASHES DOWN BANK

Four Injured in Napier Accident Dominion Special Service. Napier, July 18. Four persons were injured last night when a motor-car left a hill road about 50 yards from the Napier Public Hospital and crashed 30 yards down a steep bank into Goldsmith Road, coming to earth with its wheels in the air. The people injured are: Mr. Douglas Macdonald, Pakowhai; Mr. 11. Scott; Nurse Macdonald, on the staff of the Napier Public Hospital, and a sister of the injured man, and Nurse Crawford, also on the staff of the hospital. The injured were taken to hospital, and to-night it is reported that none is in a serious condition. It is understood that Macdonald and Scott called at the Nurses’ Home in order to take Nurses Macdonald and Crawford to a dance. The accident occurred almost within a few seconds after they left the Nurses’ Home, and at present there is nothing to indicate the cause of the car leaving the road. The car was badly smashed. STRUCK BY FLYING GLASS i When a car in which she was a passenger collided with another car parked in Vivian Street, early yesterday morning, Miss Elizabeth Carbin, of 219 Adelaide Road, was injured by flying glass and was taken to hospital. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory.