MOTORISTS' ESCAPE.
CAR . FALLS - ' OVER A BANK I drop OF twenty F EEt ; I DRIVER PINNED VNDEKNMIjp | , :» •' •••••«! A narrow escape: from Beri««V|SSS befel Mr. Roland Baker, of :pj i Avenue, Mount Eden, through : sizing of a motor-car at Westfield ! after 7 o'clock last evening. -M r v%was driving his car along the GreifS# Road toward Auckland, and when posite the Municipal Abattoirs the » " ! ing gear developed a defect, xrfth ft ■ I result that the ' car fell over 'a-- il .'' j 20ft. high. In its descent it tuhiri 1 several . times, landing at the ] the bank upside down, wit,h the 1 ■■ I pinned underneath. . . i; :r ,^-S' Aa nobody witnessed the accident Jr '. Baker was imprisoned under ' the cjrW' sometime, until Mr. George Wilkinj Jl',." i resides at 35, The Drive, Epsom, , J on the scsno in another car. Mr. to?" - kins, with the aid of a jack, Uft&M | capsized car sufficiently to release jr' I Baker, who was uninjured. His •j I badly damaged. 'C.l?'" I — ' 1 j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18335, 27 February 1923, Page 6
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