MOTOR LORRY SOMERSAULTS
OCCUPANTS THROWN CUT THREE SUSTAIN BROKEN LIMBS. [Per United Press Association.] HASTINGS, January 24. A motor lorry with food for the Rost and Telegraph picnic yesterday met with an accident while negotiating a steep hill on tho way to Waimararna beach. Tho brakes failed to act put before a hairpin bend was reached, and the car wont into a bank at the bend wiih such force that it flung out the occupants and somersaulted tw.co before it came to rest on its wheels at a fence. Miss Ray Symos sustained a broken collarbone, Rat Hassett and Arthur Warclrop (telegraph boys) a broken leg and arm respectively. Thre-e others received minor injuries.
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Evening Star, Issue 19464, 24 January 1927, Page 6
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