SERIOUSLY INJURED.
DETECTIVE IN CAR ACCIDENT
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. Nov. 17
A large police oar containing two detectives, a constable and a man who had been charged at Thames with issuing valueless cheques, overturned at Pope’s Corner, Maungatawhiri, about midnight. Detective F. Brady, Auckland, was seriously injured. The party was returning from Thames. Constable Lilly, Auckland, was driving and Detective Brady was in the front seat, and in the back were Detective Whillans and Ivan Huia Leslie Bicknell, who had appeared at the Court during the day. At the point where the accident occurred the road is undergoing re-, construction, and as the car rounded a bend it- skidded., in loose metal and toppled over a bank about four feet high, Detective Brady being thrown through the roof. Detective Whillans, who escaped injury, attended to the injured man until a car containing a Pokeno party came along and drove them to Pokeno, where an ambulance was summoned to take Detective Brady and Bicknell to Auckland. The others returned in a police car. Detective Brady’s condition was reported (Lis afternoon to be serious. Bicknell, who is also in hospital, is not in a serious condition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 18 November 1937, Page 13
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195SERIOUSLY INJURED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 18 November 1937, Page 13
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