UNLUCKY MOTORIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 10

UNLUCKY MOTORIST

accident after races CAR LATER STOLEN [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] DUNEDIN, Monday A Dunedin motorist had more than the usual share of hnrd luck on Saturday. He was returning from tho races at Wingatui and had to swing out of a lino of cars to avoid another motorist who had pulled up suddenly in front of him. This sudden movement brought a third motorist into the tangle and bo ran into the back of tho Dunedin man's car. However, the Dunedin driver safely reached his home in Stafford Street and later in tho evening was engaged in writing his report of the manner in which the accident had occurred.

It was then that his second misfortune happened, as somebody seized the opportunity to steal his car. Tho thief drove the car down Stafford Street and along Princes Street South, and as there were no lights showing on tho vehicle a traffic inspector set off in pursuit as it turned into the Anderson's Bay road. The stolen car was being driven at a speed estimated at 45 miles r.n hour and the traffic inspector could not overtake it. The thief swung the car into Cargill Road, with tho traffic inspector hot in pursuit. At Forbury corner the leading vehicle hit an electric power pole on tho side of the road and then swung rigbt across and crashed into a brick fence in front of Dr. Murray's residence on the opposite side, the car being badly damaged. The thief then jumped out of the car, cleared a fence and disappeared.