CAR OVER BANK
DRIVER SEVERELY HURT
OTHERS SLIGHTLY INJURED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, December 25.
One person was seriously injured and three others had a miraculous escape when the motor-car in which they were occupants ran off the road and rolled 200 yards down a bank on the Governor's Bay-Lyttelton road, near Rapaki, early this morning. The driver of the car, Mr. K. G. Broad, of 57 Andover Street, Merivale, was admitted to hospital with severe head injuries. Three other occupants of the car, Miss Davis (Invercargill), Miss Williamson, and Mr. R. Peoples, escaped with only slight injuries and shock.
The car ran off the road at a bend and rolled about 200 yards down a steep bajik before coming to rest ab.qut;
50 yards from the beach. Heavy rain was falling at the time of the accident.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 12
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138CAR OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 12
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