MOTOR ACCIDENT.
CAR TOPPLES OVER ON PLAINS. OCCUPANTS’ MIRACULOUS ESCAPE What might have beem a serious motor accident occurred near Kerepeehi about 1 a.m. this morning. Mr Percy Solomon, factory employee at Ngatea, was driving home from a dance at Kerepeehi in his Essex car with four passengers, when, approaching the Kerepeehi corner, he drove close to the edge of the road. The. effort of pulling back on to the metal wrenched the back tyre from its rim, .’.nd the car skidded sideways and then rolled aver twice. The driver and another Maori, who were occupying the front seat, were slightly injured by falling glass, but Messrs B. Hawkins, J. Rooney, and T. McAlister, of Ngctea, who were in the back seat, escaped without a scratch. The. hood of the car was flattened on to the body and the mudguards badly bent, but otherwise the car escaped lightly. Solomon received £4OO from the Native Land Court a few months ago and invested ha.lf of it in the car. The car was not insured.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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173MOTOR ACCIDENT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2
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