MOTOR FALLS IN GULLY.
FAMILY PARTY IN CAR* WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. [BY XELECKAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. J BLENHEIM, Thursday. A motor-car driven by Mr. T. C. Wilson, of Waimai, Huntly, who was accompanied by Mrs. Gwendoline Wilson, aged 35, and their four children, all of school age, left the road on Redwood Pass to-day, crashed to the bottom of a deep gully, turned over several times and stopped upside down. The car was proceeding from Blenheim to Christchurch. Mrs. Wilson was extricated from the car with difficulty and was removed to the Wairau Hospital suffering from injuries to the chest and back and broken ribs. The remainder of the party escaped with minor injuries The car was badly damaged. It was at this spot that two people were killed and five injured two years ago. At the inquest on that occasion the coroner strongly recommended that a parapet should be erected at the spot, which he considered was dangerous.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19827, 23 December 1927, Page 10
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