MOTOR ACCIDENT
PICNICKERS INJURED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)'
HASTINGS, This Day.
A motor-lorry with food, for the Post and Telegraph picnic yesterday met with an accident while negotiating a steep hill on. the. way to the Waimarama beach. The breaks failed to act just before a hairpin bend and the car went into a bank at the bend with such force that it flung out the occupants and somersaulted, coming to rest on its wheels at a fence. Miss Bay Symes suffered a broken collar-bone, and Pat. Hassett, and Arthur Wardrop, telegraph boy, suffered a broken, leg and arm, respectively. Three others ieeeived minor injuries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 10
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104MOTOR ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 10
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