CAR PLUNGES DOWN BANK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 January 1939, Page 4

CAR PLUNGES DOWN BANK

OCCUPANTS ESCAPE WITH SLIGHT INJURIES I United Press Association! WELLINGTON, This Day. The four occupants and passengers of a car which plunged 80ft down a bank near the saddle of the Akatarawa Gorge road at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday escaped with minor injuries, despit* severe damage to the car, which came to rest upside down. The driver was Mrs Elizabeth Benella Adams, Auckland. She had as passengers her children, aged six years, and 11 months respectively, and her sister, Miss Mavia Sheldon, aegd 16, also of Auckland. The accident occurred, after Mri Adams, who was driving toward th* summit, swerved to avoid a car coming in the opposite direction. Mr* Adams managed to avoid this car by driving in toward the watertable on th* cliff side, but immediately after her car went across the road and down the steep, bush-covered bank. The child, aged six, received a bruis* on the forehead, and Miss Sheldon, who was attended by Dr W. F. Kemp, a cut on the jaw. Mrs Adams’s party was taken to Upper Hutt by Mr Charles Claude Corlet, Featherston. th* driver of the other car. They wer* able to proceed home by train last night. The road is narrow at the point where the mishap occurred.