MOTOR-CAR OVER BANK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19627, 4 May 1927, Page 10

MOTOR-CAR OVER BANK.

CAUGHT AGAINST FENCE, OCCUPANTS' LUCKY ESCAPE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WAIHI, Tuesday. A party of Waihi motorists, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. E. Jennings, and their youne children, had a remarkable escape from serious accident on the Waihi-Paeroa Road when returning home on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jennings was following closely behind another Waihibound car, which pulled up suddenly at a bend to avoid a collision with a enr corning from tho opposite direction. Mr. Jennings swung his car outward to avoid striking the vehicle in front, but the margin of roadway loft proved insufficient, and ufter hanging on the brink for a few seconds the car toppled over the bank with a drop of 20ft. to the Ohinemuri River. Fortunately a wire fence and dense growth of blackberry caught and held the car some distance from the bottom. After the door had been wrenched open from the outside tha occupants of the car were able to crawl out none tho worse, apart from bruises and abrasions for their adventure. The upper part of the car was wrecked and the body had to be separated from the chassis before the two parts could be hauled back on to the roadway.