MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 7

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

ARCHDEACON'S CAR SOMERSAULTS INTO CREEK (Special io the ‘Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, January 29. Skidding on a road , made greasy by rain, a motor car driven by Archdeacon P, B. Haggitt, and containing Mrs Haggitt and Miss Norah Haggitt, plunged down a steep bank on the Greenburn cutting, between Kaikoura and Waiau, yesterday, afternoon, and went into a creek 150 ft below. The occupants had a miraculous escape from serious injury.'for, despite tho fact that the car turned over many times during its descent, they Suffered nothing worse than small cuts and slight bruises. Archdeacon Haggitt, who was near of Merivale (Christchurch) for eighteen years, was on his way to Nelson to take up a,new appointment as dean of that diocese. He had left- Sherwood, the homestead of Mr E. P. H. Bur bury, of Waiau, and it was 6u the inland road, about eighteen miles south of Kaikoura, that the accident took place. “Wo are all safe, including the family cat, which was a passenger with us in the car,” Archdeacon Haggitt told tho, ‘ Prejs ’ when he was telephoned at Kaikoura last evening.. Ho said that-he and his family had had a remarkable escape.