CARS CRANKED IN GEAR
TWO NORTH ISLAND INSTANCES.
MAORI DRIVER DEAD
(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.^ GISBORNE, March 6. Injuries sustained by Moko Nepe, a Maori who was crushed by a motor-car at Ruatorea on Sunday last, have resulted fatally. Nepe was cranking a car with the gears engaged and it ran forward, pushing him over a bank and landing on top of him. STARTED IN REVERSE. GAR WRECKED IN .MOUNT EDEN GRATER. AUCKLAND, March 6. A motor-car owned by W. D. Adams and driven by a young lady to the top of Mount Eden yesterday afternoon, was left standing in reverse gear. When the lady cranked it, the car hurtled backwards, went to the bottom of the crater and was irretrievably ruined. It is fortunate that there were no occupants of the car, and that the selfstarter was not used.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 March 1926, Page 9
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