MOTORISTS' ESCAPE
VEHICLE LEAVES ROAD STOPPED BY TREE STUMP [fbom our own correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday Three people were saved from death or serious injury yesterday by a wire fence and a tree stump that stopped a five-seater sedan motor-car on the brink of a steep bank beside the AucklandWellington main highway, just beyond Urenui. The driver, Mr. W. 11. Crocombe, of Gray Street, Cambridge, received a slight head injury. The car was travelling toward New Plymouth when it collided with another car driven by Mr. Winiata Wereta, a Maori, from Hunterville, who was travelling in the opposite direction. The latter car was wrenched round by tho impact and stopped dead. The other car, however, hurtled across the road into a wire fence at tho top of a 40ft. cliff. Though it tore its way through the fence, its speed was slackened and a tree stump stopped it just before it would have toppled over. No ono was injured. Both cars were extensively damaged and were towed to New Plymouth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22392, 13 April 1936, Page 12
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