CAR IN FLAMES
WATERFRONT SMASH
DRIVER ARRESTED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 27. One person was admitted to hos- • pital and several others received minor injuries as a result of a motor collision on the Waterfront Road at Orakei at about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. A passenger in one car,- Mrs. L. Derrick, of Ponsonby, suffered head injuries and shock, and the driver, Mr. N. Walker, of Kohimarama, Mrs. Walker, their infant son s and another passenger, Miss B. Green, all received cuts or shock. The car burst into names and Mrs. Derrick, who had been thrown for-! ward through the windscreen, was lifted clear just in time. The driver of a bus stopped and put out the fire with an extinguisher, but the collision and flames had damaged the car extensively. All the injured persons were taken to hospital in an ambulance, but with the exception of Mrs. Derrick they were able to go home after receiving medical attention. The four occupants of the other car were not injured. They were questioned by the police, and an arrest was subsequentlj' made. A man will appear in the Magistrate's Court on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 8
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202CAR IN FLAMES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 8
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