ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
CAR FALLS INTO RIVER. OCCUPANTS SWIM TO BANK. [bt telegraph.—press association.] HASTINGS, Wednesday. When a motor-car -went of! the rQad tonight Mr. George Poison Maule, of Palraerston North, the owner and driver, and Mr. Frank Taylor Brown, of Lower Hutt, had a narrow escape from drowning. The car had just crossed the Karamu Bridge on the Napier-Hastings Road when the lights of another car coming in the opposite direction dazzled Mr. Maule, whose swerve to the left on bad portion of the road t-ook the car over a bank. The. car turned over and landed upside down in the river, only the wheels and chassis showing. Fortunately one door of the car,, a fiveseater sedan, burst open during the descent, and the occupants were able to scramble out quickly and swim to the bank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 8
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