SCHOOLBOYS' ESCAPE
TARANAKI MOTOR ACCIDENT VISITORS FROM AUCKLAND [by telegraph—own correspondent! NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday Six schoolboys had an astonishing escape from serious injury late yesterday afternoon when a saloon car driven by Wynn Davies, a New Plymouth Boys' High School pupil, capsized on the main road. The passengers in the car were L. V. B. Franich, R. B. Woodward and J. Douglas (Auckland Grammar School) and 11. Corkill and M. 0. Ekdahl (New Plymouth Boys' High School), who are taking part in the quadrangular Rugby tournament. They were returning from North Egmont when the car developed wheel wobble as it reached the crest of a hill. The driver completely lost control and the car crossed the road twice, struck a severe bump, leapt into the air and turned over, landing flat on its hood, which collapsed. All of the six occupants suffered severely from shock, but only Ekdahl received minor abrasions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 8
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