DOUBLE ESCAPE

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1937, Page 4

DOUBLE ESCAPE

FROM DEATH SYDNEY, April 7Victor Braitling, 18, of Waratah Street, Haberfleld, eseaped death twice in a few moments in a motor smash and then a fire at the corner of Carlton Crescent and Liverpool Road, Ashfield, last nightBraitling’s single-seater can came into collision with a motor lorry. It turned over several times and camo to rest on a footpath. The youth was pinned under the wreckage-

Flames then engulfed the engine of the ear, with Braitling still underneath suffering fractures of his left thigh and! right arm. a probable fractured skull, and extensive abrasions.

Pedestrians rushed to pull him clear, while brigadesmen, who saw the crash from their station nearby, ran to extinguish the fire. The blaze, however, burned itself out in several seconds without touching the trapped driver, who was extricated and taken by Western Suburbs Ambulance to Lewisham Hospital, where his condition at a late hour was serious. A cyclist was injured and a driver of a motor lorry narrowly escaped injury when both vehicles collided headon in Laughlan Road, Cardiff, last n'ight. The motor lorry, in endeavoring to avoid the bicycle, ran off the road, crashed down a 6ft. gully, and turned over on its side. A. Gorning, 19, of Sturt Road, Cardiff, the rider of the bicycle, was taken by Lake Macquar’e Ambulance to Wallsend Hospital, with concussion and severe lacerations to the left hand. Richard Schacht, 154, a State child employed at Mitchell’s Store, Frazer Street. Canley Vale, was riding a bicycle along George’s Hall Road, Can-J ley Vale, yesterday, delivering papersi when he collided ■with a motor lorr« Liverpool Ambulance ivas and the boy was found to be scious, suffering from concussion a fractured left thigh- He was admiM ted to Auburn Hospital. fl