CAR OVER BANK
WELLINGTON PARTY
MAN AND BOY IN HOSPITAL
(By Telegraph .—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., December 27. Mr. James Hilton Dodd, aged 23, and Raymond William Dodd, aged 11, both of Wellington, were injured this afternoon when a motor-car driven by Mr. Shaw Crosland, builder, 192 The Parade, Island Bay, in which.-they were passengers, went over a, bank on the cliff road which skirts the Manawatu River at Palmerston North. Also in the car were Mr. J. H. Dodd, sen., Mrs. Ethel Dodd.and Miss Pearl Mcllride, all of Wellington. They were slightly bruised. The car was being driven around the bend towards the Fitzherbert Bridge when the embankment to the left of the car collapsed. ; The car rolled over the bank, somersaulted several times, and came to rest twentyfive feet below in a gully. Mr. J. H. Dodd and Master R. W. Dodd were removed to hospital suffering from shock and cuts. The road has recently been banked up with loose metal. Traffic has pushed some of the metal into the long grass on the edge of the road, giving it a wider appearance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 8
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185CAR OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 8
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