SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 26 January 1911, Page 5

SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

LEAP INTO LAGOON

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION,

PALMEKSTOX N., Jan. 25. A sensational motor accident occurred this afternoon at Awapuni. Mr R. S. Abraham, of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., was motoring out from Mr Alan Strang's residence in liis Wol sley-Sidde-ley ear, with Mr Craw beside him. Just as he got out of the drive he found another car in the road, of whose approach he had had no warning. In hastily seeking to put on the brakes, the accelerator was touched and the car, in the effort to avoid the other, dashed through the bridge and into the big lagoon, turning completely ovei as it did so. Mr Abraham escaped with an injured "hand, but Mr Craw had a rib "broken and a bad shaking. Probably the circumstance of landing in the lagoon sav^d both their lives.