A NARROW ESCAPE.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] Wellingfoii. Jan. 1. A motor car carrying Mr. J. B. Harcourt. Miss Harcourt, Mr. Gordon Harcourt and Colonel Henry Harkness, an English visitor, met with a serious accident on the Rinnitaka Incline. Wairarapa side, this morning. The foot brake failed to act as the car was descending the mountain. The driver. H. Flan, acted with great presence of mind, and steered the car to the bank side, preventing it going down a steep decliviiv. All t’he occupants were thrown out. Mr. J. B. Harcourt was badly bruised and shaken. Colonel Harkness received injuries to his hei’.d. a. d hands, and the others sus-tainc-il ’-li’-’or injuries. The party had a miraculous escape from death.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 January 1912, Page 5
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119A NARROW ESCAPE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 January 1912, Page 5
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