MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS
TWO OCCUPANTS INJURED MISS ORBELL OF TIMARU [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHTJRCH, Saturday As the result of a motor-car accident on Hills Road, Marshland, last evening, Miss Diana Orbell, of Pentlow, Timaru, was admitted to, hospital suffering from serious head injuries and in an unconscious condition. She was in a coupe car, driven by Mr. K. H. Hargreaves, which ran off the road at an nnlighted corner and came to rest on its roof in a six-foot ditch. Miss Orbell struck her head on the roof of the car, and Mr. Hargreaves was rendered semi-conscious. The doors of the car jammed, and it was impossible for the occupants to escape. Eventually, however, a passer-by notified tho police, and Constable Osborne, wading up to his knees in mud, used a crowbar and sledge-hammer to smash open ono door and release the injured persons. Undoubtedly the steel roof of the car saved the lives of the occupants, who were on the way to a cabaret. Miss .Orbell's condition this morning had improved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21883, 20 August 1934, Page 8
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