MOTOR CAR GOES OVER A CLIFF.
DRIVER'S REMARKABLE ESCAPEIn- the Manawatu Gorge, on Thuwdtf afternoon, Mr. Byron Brown, * £?;-- met with a motor car accident, and » - truly miraculous escape (says the ♦ watu Evening Standard). He was journeying through from the w .«2£ to i ■Otaki, in « big new car, when be can* the most dangerous turn in the Gorge , .' The road at this point almost <fubl» i and to go straight on m ~~ »* ; a 50ft precipice. i lv. B . lo ** J! road, j allow enough for the big twist in the rMJj ; and before he knew where he• v. a! ■ «■ had shot over the edge. It tur=i i Jlr . plete somersault, and, fortunatclj w I Brown, tipped him on the bank jWji. down, while it continued on andfo» side down on the river hid, •■ *■■ and only sustained one or two strata - after going, down and* opm n* he returned to Woodville little-th..*« y • his experience. A party of nun the damaged car up on to the, WJ« ?fe# ". , and, an examination V e s'u,/! *'ib(«Jb*4 >-1 from its smashed body, it asa •«"».., j . little damage. .' '■ r■", 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14231, 30 November 1909, Page 6
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