ERRATIC COURSE
CAR OUT OF CONTROL ELDERLY MAN INJURED 'Per United Press Association) PALMERSTON N., Feb. 3. An elderly man, who has not been identified, is at present in hospital in danger of losing his life as the result of a car's wild career in the main street this afternoon. The mishap was surrounded by unusual circumstances. The driver was Robert George Leydon, a salesman, of Te Kuiti, who in order to avoid a boy on a bicycle, who was about to cross his tracks swerved to the right. The car then became unmanageable and shot on to the footpath, gathering speed. I! jammed the elderly man against the brick frontage of a factory, shot back on the road again, and grazed a parked car on the opposite side of the road before being brought to a standstill. Other pedestrians managed to jump out of the way of the car but the man who was struck unfortunately had his back to it He was unconscious when picked up. The boy on the bicycle had his clothes torn but received no injury.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23106, 4 February 1937, Page 10
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181ERRATIC COURSE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23106, 4 February 1937, Page 10
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