Miraculous Escape.
Flung backward on to a concrete roadway when a motor-car door opened suddenly, a little girl and a baby had a miraculous escape from injury on the Napier-Hastings highway. Oncoming cars on the busy road missed the children by inches. The motor-car was carrying a party ot Wanganui campers to Napier. The girl, aged about eight years, was sitting on a suitcase in the rear of the vehicle with her back to the door and was nursing a baby of 12 months. It is, possible that the girl leaned on the catch and her weight burst the door open. The car was one of a stream of vehicles travelling at moderate speed when the girl, the baby and the suitcase were flung out near the middle of the road. Motorists swerved, hurriedly to avoid them. The suitcase was run over and burst open. The glass on the girl’s watch was broken.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1947, Page 4
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