PLUNGE OVER BANK
MOTOR PARTY WRECKED
THREE PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL.
'' ■ '.' '/ ■ (Bj Telegraph.—Prea Anociatioa.) CAMBRIDGE, This Day. j Three occupants of a motor-ear,. M*. Harold Joseph Tobin (Auckland), and, Mr. William Crow and his wife (Putaruru) had a miraculous escape from ■ death at 8 o'clock this morning. While they, were traveling from Putaruru to Hamilton the car went over a 75-foot bank in Fisher's Gully on. the Main Cambridgo-Tirau road^ eight miles from Cambridge. Mr. Tobin, who was driving, failed to negotiate the car round si sharp corner, and the vehicle somersaulted down the declivity, landing oit its wheels in a creek below with the occupants still in the car.Mrs. Crow sustained a fearful gash" on the forehead, a broken nose, and other minor injuries. The driver had a rib broken. Mr. Crow was the most fortunate, receiving only slight injuries. -. ' ■-■'■;-■ The sufferers were taken to the Wj_k kato Hospital. The car is badly item. aged.- '".'-.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 12
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155PLUNGE OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 12
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