MOTOR ACCIDENT
TWO MEN INJURED ISpecial to “Northern Advocate ”1 KAITAIA, This Day. A motor accident occurred on the Awanui Road late on Saturday night, as a result of which E. Mumford, of Auckland, the driver, and J. E. Penman, of Awanui, were admitted to the County Hospital at Kaitaia suffering from shock and other injuries. The car was proceeding from Awanui to Kaitaia and the driver states that he swerved to miss a cream can left in the road. The car got out of control in the loose metal and after skidding for some distance along the metal tilrned end over end and pulled up partly hanging on a fence, facing the direction from which it came and practically upside down, ’ Mr Cedric Harrison arrived shortly after the accident and conveyed' both men in a dazed condition to the hospital. The car was severely damaged, but notwithstanding the violence it suffered, no windows were broken, and the windscreen was merely cracked.
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Northern Advocate, 10 March 1936, Page 6
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