MOTOR MISHAP
SENSATIONAL HAPPENING.
(II mEORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DANNEVIRKE, This Day.
A rather sensational motor mishap occurred early on Sunday morning, when, a car ■ containing 1 Ivan L. Knight (the young airman who was in the recent forced landing at New Brighton) and L. Cowan, was proceeding south from Dannevirke, and crashed into the side of a bridge in Rawhiti street. The high-pow-ered Packard stripped the whole of the side of protecting rails, and traversed'the structure with- two wheels on it and two wheels over the edge. The bridge is 20 feet long over a creek 30 feet below, and but for the outside wheels bumping the projecting stay planks the car must have toppled over. It went a couple of chains beyond the bridge before it pulled- up. It then caught fire. Neither of the occupants was hurt, but the car was extensively damaged.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 8
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