CAR OVER BANK
PASSENGER DIES FROM injuries. (Per Press Association—Copyright). AIJCKLAND, December 4. A single man, Adrian Oswald Alison. aged 20, of Helensville, was fatally injured, when a motor-car in which he was a passenger, crashed over a low.bank just beyond, the Mount Rex railway station, on the Helens-ville-Ivaukapakapa main highway. The’’ driver of the car, Len Gray, of Helensville, suffered a broken collar bone, and was taken to a private hospital in Helensville. Allison was taken to hospital with extensive injuries to the chest and broken ribs. He died about two hours after the accident. An ambulance was called from Auckland, but the man was too severely injured to be brought to the city. Before the crash, the car struck a series of pot-holes in the road, and got out of control. It swerved to both sides of the road, and then careered over the bank, landing with its wheels uppermost. Three young children who were also in the car were affected by shock, but were not injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1938, Page 8
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