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SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT NEAE
SUMNER,
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHTJRCH, This Day. A sensational accident occurred on Clifton Hill, Simmer, yesterday, when a three-seater car driven by J. Reid refused to ; answer the brake, and burst through a. fence and slid over the cliff. Just when the car was a few yards off a sheer drop of two hundred feet Reid grabbed the wheel and slewed it .into some macrocarpa trees, where it stopped undamaged. . Many people were on thu road below at .the time.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 114, 18 May 1925, Page 6
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