Man Injured In Waipu Car Smash
Suffering from concussion and lacerations received in a motor car accident, Mr Rangi Scorran, an employee of the railway department at Maungaturoto, was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital at 6 o’clock on Sunday morning. The injured man has not been able to give a coherent account of the accident but as far as the police can ascertain Scorran and a companion were at a dance at Maungaturoto and were given a lift to Waipu in a car in which were two men and a girl. At Waipu the car left the road and, hitting the wall of a shed attached to Taylor’s Store, smashed about 20ft. of the wall, then broke a gate post, 18 inches square and, by marks on the side of the road, then appeared to skid for 90ft. A telephone exchange clerk, Mr G Lowson, who was going off duty, arrived on the scene and, seeing that Scorran was injured, communicated with the Whangarei St. John Ambulance, which took the injured man to hospital. It is understood that the car concerned in the accident was driven by Mr T. A. Edwards, of Mareretu.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 8
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