HORSES STAMPEDE
COLLISION WITH CAR NEAR WELLINGTON WOMAN CUT BY GLASS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Three young draught horses and a light motor-car were involved in a collision on the main north road about 40 miles north of Wellington. Breaking out of a paddock and stampeding north along the highway the horses were wildly galloping up a rise in the road when they met the car coming up the other side. The two women occupants saw the horses in time to stop the car. The horses, however, careered, on, colliding heavily with the car.. One leaped at the vehicle, smashing the radiator, the windscreen, and part of the roof. Another kicked out at thecar.shaltering the glass in a side window. One of the women received cuts from the flying glass and both suffered shock. The horses were badly cut. and bruised in the encounter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 9
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