A 60-FOOT FALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 10

A 60-FOOT FALL

CAR LEAVES CRAWFORD ROAD

When their car crashed through the guard-rail; : while travelling ■ down Crawford Road late yesterday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyd, of Waterloo Road,, Lower Hutt, had a miraculous escape from death or serious injury. • .'■' ' .

At about 3.45 p.m. the car was being driven down Crawford Road.by Mr. Boyd. Suddenly it jumped the kerb, crashed through the rail fence', and dived over the edge, of the road. , The pavement terminates in a considerable drop. at the point where the car went over, but - the vehicle, which was a heavy sedan model, landed on its wheels : on .the roof of. a fowlhouse below in- a. property, belonging to Mr. J. Hughes. ' After' rolling' off the shed, the car' finished up On its wheels'again further down the' garden. ; • ' ■

According- to Mr.- Hughes,. who was in the garden.at the time, the car did a complete sideways somersault in the air after hitting the .fowlhouse, and then alighted on its four -wheels. He was amazed at the occupants' escape from serious hurt

Mr. Boyd did not receive a scratch, but Mrs: Boyd required medical attention before^ she could • return to her home. The car, of course, was extensively damaged,' and, being sixty feet below and, about .the same distance from the edge of the roadway, presents a problem to the salvage company.