MOTOR CARS IN COLLISION.
"LET HER GO." A motor accident occurred oh the re Ante Hill, Tlawke's Bay, which night easily have had a very serious ;ermination. A Maori, driving a car tom the summit of the hill, seeing the :ourse apparently clear, '"let her go ■ or all she was worth" (to use his own expression) down the grade. Coming ■omul a bend he came into unexpected '•ollisiou with a car coming up the lill, The result was that the native vas 'precipitated riglit through the ;creen, somersaulting over the other ;ar, and finding himself deposited in i hea]) on the road. The occupants of the car which was iscending the hill escaped unhurt, but ;he aboriginal, in his passage through ihe shattered glass, got very badly cut ibout the legs, and his nether garments were almost stripped from his jody. He certainly had a marvellous escape from almost certain- deafji.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9538, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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151MOTOR CARS IN COLLISION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9538, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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