NARROW ESCAPE
WAITAKARURU ACCIDENT CAR SKIDS INTO DRAIN At 10 a.m. on Saturday two Waitakaruru youths, Donald and Peter Ashford, had a very narrow escape from serious injury which* they only dodged by their prompt actions. A car travelling from Auckland to the races at Thames, became involved with two other cars, and skidded along the side of the drain in Boom road, Waitakaruru. It first hit Mr Joe Mitchell’s milk truck, then sheared off his letter box and skidded across the road, straight towards the Ashford boys* who had stopped their motor cycle at the side off the road. In an effort to avoid hitting them, the driver of the car made a complete somersault and then finished on its side, badly wrecked. The Ashford boys took to the drain, cycle and all, just in time. The four, occupants of the car, who escaped with just bruises and ‘lacerations, returned to Auckland’ by bus and the car was towed to a local garage. ; ,j.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4332, 18 September 1950, Page 5
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