ROCKS FALL ON CAR
SLIPS FROM CLIFF FACE WHEEL HANGING OVER DROP WOMAN AND CHILDREN ESCAPE [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] GISBORNE, Tuesday With one wheel forced over the edge of a twenty-foot drop to the river alongside the Mangapoike Road, a car was struck by several falling stones, weighing between two and three hundredweight, and damaged to the extent of £3O before it could be moved. No one was injured. A Mangapoike resident was driving home with her children when the wheel went over the edge of the road, as she was endeavouring; to avoid a number of stones which had fallen from' the rock face on the other side. Unable to move the car, the driver sent one of her children four miles to Paparatu station for resistance, while she remained with the younger children. Further falls of rock, which dropped straight 011 to the road, some hitting the car, caused her to vacate the car for a safer, although wet, location oil the roadside. When her husband arrived with a truck and a roadman, the car was extricated. The face at this point has always been a source of danger, the rock formation hanging out over the road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 12
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