YOUTH INJURED IN SPECTACULAR CAR SMASH AT GORE
(P.A.) GORE, This Day. In a spectacular car smash at midnight last night, a young man, Austin Holmes, a theatre attendant, aged 18, received concussion and abrasions. He was admitted to the Gore hospital. The car, a single-seater tourer, left the road and crashed through the end of the Gore traffic bridge, smashing a wooden fence and concrete wall to land on the river bank 14 feet below. A piece of concrete was thrown 75 feet away. The condition of the driver this morning was satisfactory.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1947, Page 2
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