CAR SKIDS IN METAL AND CAPSIZES
DRIVER UNHURT. ACCIDENT NEAR CEMETERY AT TERRACE END A Wellington visitor to Palmerston North, Mr. Manners, of the National Dairy association, had a narrow escape from serious injury on Tuesday evening. Mr. Manners was driving a heavy sedan car and the machine skidded when negotiating the corner of "V ogel and Main streets above the Terrace End cemetery. The result was fraught with danger to the driver, as the heavy car crashed through the fence and toppled over the incline on to the railway line below. It came to rest upside down with its wheels in the air, but hv a miracle the driver escaped unhurt. Mr. Manners’ good fortune extended even further, for despite its shaking and the extent of its fall, the car itself was not extensively damaged. A severe loss, however, Wtis that of a ease of business papers which had been left in the car and which yesterday morning, were found to be missing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 8
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164CAR SKIDS IN METAL AND CAPSIZES Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 8
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