PLUNGED IN DARKNESS
CRASH INTO POWER POLE
MOTOR UPSETS WHOLE TOWN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 26th May
A car driven by G. L. Coles, an driller, crashed into an electric light pole to-night, and every light in New Plymouth was extinguished.
Dazzling flashes of electricity played about the damaged pole, and astonished people who had been attracted by tho crash of the impact. ,
In the weird light of these continuous electric flashes Coles was found unconscious in his'car, but he Tecpvered sufficiently to walk to tho ambulance. Coles, who came to New Plymouth from Mexico, was' reported late tonight to bo apparently not seriously hurt.
The light in some sections of the town was not restored for an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 10
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120PLUNGED IN DARKNESS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 10
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