CAR’S 300-FOOT FALL
Ran Away On Steep Gradient Dominion Special Service HASTINGS, May .13. Watching the car they had got out of to repair a puncture fall over a 300-foot bank was the experience of two Hastings men, Messrs. I’. Woon and S. Wall, lust evening. Returning from a deer-shooting expedition, they stopped the car on u hill on the Crownthorpe road, about 29 miles from Hastings, to mend a puncture. They hud the ear jacked up, but. let it down again with the idea of moving it a little in the hope of loosening two nuts which gave trouble. Once they started to move the vehicle on the sleep gradient it gained momentum, and the men found they were unable to stop it.
The car was a Uve-seater owned by Mr Wall.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 3
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133CAR’S 300-FOOT FALL Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 3
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