ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TRAINER’S FORTUNATE ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) HAWERA, August 28. _ A trainer named G. Edgecombe experienced a marvellous escape from severe injury when galloping a young unnamed gelding on the Hawera racecourse this morning. The animal shied at a gate, unseating Edgecombe, whose foot caught in the stirrup, causing, him to be dragged over 100 yards by the bolting horse till he got free. Edgecombe miraculously escaped being struck by the flying hoofs, and suffered nothing more serious than a badly-bruised arm and a severe shaking. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 28. The three occupants of a car which plunged off the road on Wharerata Hill at night had a remarkable escape. . The car turned a complete somersault, and slid. 50 feet down hill before its descent was arrested by a tree. The car was extensively damaged, but, with the exception of one small cut from flying glass, the occupants escaped injury.
INFANT ACCIDENTLY SMOTHERED (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, August 28. Muriel Ada Morrison, aged three months, was discovered dead in bed alongside her mother at Patutahi this morning. The 'nfart had evidently been accidentally smothered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20499, 29 August 1928, Page 6
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194ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20499, 29 August 1928, Page 6
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