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DRIVER'S LUCKY ESCAPE COLLISION IN THE CITY Minor injuries were suffered by Mr. Herbert Junker, aged 22, of 13 Ruatnra Road, Orakei, when the light twoseater touring motor-car in which he was travelling was involved in a collision with another car at the intersection of Victoria Street West, Franklin Road and Union Street shortly after S o'clock last night. After the colision the touring ear overturned, throwing Mr. Junker out, and came to rest on its hood against a power pole, pinning thj> young man underneath. The car was lifted off Mr. Junker, who had injured his loft hip and lie was taken to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance. He was treated in the casualty department and permitted to go home. No one in the other car was hurt and n young man who was accompanying Mr. Junker escaped injury. Both vehicles were considerably damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 14
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