A somewhat sensational accident occurred at Ferndalo the other day (says the Mataura Ensign), when the victim was fortunate to escapo with a fractured and dislocated elbow. Miss Falconer was driving from her father's farm, m company with Mrs and Mise Grant, of Gore. A young horse was attached to a, trap, and coming down the steep hill from the farm to the road the animal "played up" aril capsized the trap. The Gore ladies get clear with a shaking, but Miss Falconer accompanied the vehicle down a steep slope into a swampy creek. She was almost completely buried in the mud, and was in danger of being asphyxiated, when the struggling horse dragged the trap off her.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 21
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