INJURED MOTORIST SUCCUMBS AFTER EXPOSURE TO FROST
(P.A.) MASTERTON, July 22. Gravely injured when, for over seven hours during the winter’s severest frost he was pinned by night under a car which had rolled over an 85ft. drop from the Hinakura Hill Road. Martinborough. a man died in the Masterton Hospital yesterday afternoon. ITe was Mr John William Clarke, aged 28 years, single, of Summer Hill. Hinakura. formerly of Auckland.
A passenger in the car, Mr. Norman Olsen, who was admitted to the Greytown Hospital yesterday morning, was later discharged. Mr. Olsen freed himself from the wrecked car at 5 a.m. .yesterday by cutting away some of his clothing which was caught up in the car. Ho went to a farm house and with assistance jacked up the car. beneath which the head and right shoulder of Mr. Clarke had been pinned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23313, 24 July 1950, Page 6
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142INJURED MOTORIST SUCCUMBS AFTER EXPOSURE TO FROST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23313, 24 July 1950, Page 6
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