CAR SOMERSAULTS TWICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 March 1939, Page 4

CAR SOMERSAULTS TWICE

OCCUPANTS ESCAPE LIGHTLY I United Pi oss Asaocianmil NAPIER. 28th February. About a mile on the Taupo side of Rangitaiki Hotel, on the Napier-Taupo road, a new sedan car travelling toward Taupo and driven by Mr Jar* Cotterill, aged 24, Napier, with Mr R. H. Weeks, aged 40. Kennedy road, Napier, as passenger, came to grief on the open road with no other traffic in the neighbourhood about noon to-dev. The car left the road, struck a twofoot bank on the left-hand side, turned two somersaults and came to rest on its wheels facing in the opposite direction. The top of the car was crushed diwn almost on to the back of the front seat, all the glass smashed and ! the bodywork wrecked. Both men were semi-conscious when * they were picked up and taken to the 1 Rangitaiki Hotel, where they were attended by Dr. Armstrong, Taupo. A.t ambulance with a nurse set out from Napier and brought them back 1o Napier Public Hogpital. Mr Weeks was reported to-night to have received shock, abrasions and injuries to the chest, and Mr Cotterill was reported to be suffering from shock, abrasions and bruises. The r condition was said to be satisfactory.